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State Department, WHO, CDC Travel Warnings, Public Announcements, Travel Guidance, Etc

Travel Warnings are issued when the State Department decides, based on all relevant information, to recommend that Americans avoid travel to a certain country. The following has been issued since BP's most recent update:

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Israel, the West Bank and Gaza04/28/04

Public Announcementson Significant Security Risks are a means to disseminate information about terrorist threats or certain other relatively short-term and/or transnational conditions. The following have been issued since BP's most recent update:

Bolivia04/29/04
Ireland04/29/04
Kyrgyz Republic04/27/04
Middle East and North Africa04/29/04
Philippines04/28/04
Worldwide Caution04/29/04

Consular Information Sheets are available for every country of the world and include a variety of information. The following have been issued since BP's most recent update:

Dominican Republic04/28/04
Greece04/28/04
Kazakhstan04/28/04

(These and other travel warnings, public announcements, and consular information sheets are available at http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html)

World Health Organization. The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued the following updates since BP's most recent update:

  • China confirms SARS infection in two previously reported cases - update 4 (dated 04/29/04)
  • China reports additional SARS case - update 3 (dated 04/28/04)
  • Additional patients in China under investigation for SARS; WHO team travels to Beijing - update 2 (dated 04/26/04)
  • China reports additional SARS cases - update (dated 04/23/04)

These and other disease outbreak-related updates are available on the WHO's Web site at http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued the following document related to disease outbreaks since BP's most recent update:

  • Notice: Nipah Virus Encephalitis, Bangladesh (released 04/26/04)

This and other disease out-break related updates available on the CDC's Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/travel/

(See ITT's Online Archives or 04/26/04 news, 04042640, for most recent previous BP summary of State Department, WHO, and CDC travel warnings, public announcements, and consular information sheets.)