Travel Health Guide
Panama
This narrow country stuck between the South Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea offers a diverse tourist experience, from the unique panameño cuisine and cosmopolitan Panama City to idyllic seaside escapes and surf sessions on the Azuero Sunset Coast and visits to the ruins of Panama Viejo. And for the best outdoor experiences, you can hike, zipline, and birdwatch in gorgeous remote rainforests.
Travel Health Guide
Panama
This narrow country stuck between the South Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea offers a diverse tourist experience, from the unique panameño cuisine and cosmopolitan Panama City to idyllic seaside escapes and surf sessions on the Azuero Sunset Coast and visits to the ruins of Panama Viejo. And for the best outdoor experiences, you can hike, zipline, and birdwatch in gorgeous remote rainforests.
Panama Travel Checklist
At Runway, we're looking to empower the traveler with information, resources and access to prescription travel medication. Runway Health Guides are compiled from government sources, local authorities and vetted by a team of licensed travel physicians. From vaccine requirements to medication recommendations, here’s everything you need to know.
Vaccine Entry Requirements For Panama
Yellow Fever
If traveling directly from the US, Panama does not require any vaccines to enter.
If your itinerary includes a visit to, or a 12+ hour layover in, a Yellow Fever endemic country prior to arrival, a Yellow Fever vaccine and proof of vaccination may be required to enter. For a list of Yellow Fever endemic countries, click here:
COVID-19
Requirements for COVID-19 vaccinations change regularly. For the latest travel requirements, please refer to this interactive map developed by our friends at Sherpa.
Most travelers get these
when traveling from the US to Panama
Vaccines
Covid 19
Childhood Vaccinations
- Chickenpox
- Diphtheria – Tetanus – Pertussis
- Flu (Influenza)
- Measles – Mumps – Rubella (MMR)
- Polio
- Shingles
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
Medications
Malaria Medication
if traveling to high transmission regions such as the provinces of Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, Colón, Darién, Panamá, and Veraguas as well as Kuna Yala (Guna Yala). No transmission in Panamá Oeste, the Canal Zone, or in Panama City Plan ahead- you may have to start taking medication for several days before and after you travel to ensure that it is effective.
Traveler’s Diarrhea Antibiotics
to alleviate an intestinal infection resulting from eating or drinking contaminated food or water. It is the most common travel-related illness and can occur anywhere, but the highest-risk destinations are in Asia, Africa, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Middle East.
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Some travelers get these
when traveling from the US to Panama
Vaccines
Yellow Fever
even though proof of vaccination is not required to enter, there are certain areas of Panama with a presence of Yellow Fever, although not in most popular tourist regions of Panama City, San Blas, Pearl Islands and areas to the west of the canal. Consider vaccination if visiting areas surrounding Darien, Kuna Yala (Guna Yala), and eastern regions of Panamá and Colón.
Typhoid
if you are visiting rural or remote areas or enjoying an extended stay in the country.
Medications
Motion Sickness Medication
will ensure your travels by air, land or sea are more enjoyable without nausea and dizziness tagging along.
Sleep Aids
may be a great addition to your packing list if you struggle with jet lag or sleeplessness due to travel stress or time zone changes.
Travel Checklist
At Runway, we're looking to empower the traveler with information, resources and access to prescription travel medication. Runway Health Guides are compiled from government sources, local authorities and vetted by a team of licensed travel physicians. From vaccine requirements to medication recommendations, here’s everything you need to know.
Yellow Fever
If traveling directly from the US, Panama does not require any vaccines to enter.
COVID-19
Requirements for COVID-19 vaccinations change regularly. For the latest travel requirements, please refer to this interactive map developed by our friends at Sherpa.
when traveling from the US to Panama
Vaccines
Covid 19
Childhood Vaccinations
- Chickenpox
- Diphtheria – Tetanus – Pertussis
- Flu (Influenza)
- Measles – Mumps – Rubella (MMR)
- Polio
- Shingles
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
Medications
Malaria Medication
if traveling to high transmission regions such as the provinces of Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, Colón, Darién, Panamá, and Veraguas as well as Kuna Yala (Guna Yala). No transmission in Panamá Oeste, the Canal Zone, or in Panama City Plan ahead- you may have to start taking medication for several days before and after you travel to ensure that it is effective.
Traveler’s Diarrhea Antibiotics
to alleviate an intestinal infection resulting from eating or drinking contaminated food or water. It is the most common travel-related illness and can occur anywhere, but the highest-risk destinations are in Asia, Africa, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Middle East.
when traveling from the US to Panama
Vaccines
Yellow Fever
even though proof of vaccination is not required to enter, there are certain areas of Panama with a presence of Yellow Fever, although not in most popular tourist regions of Panama City, San Blas, Pearl Islands and areas to the west of the canal. Consider vaccination if visiting areas surrounding Darien, Kuna Yala (Guna Yala), and eastern regions of Panamá and Colón.
Typhoid
if you are visiting rural or remote areas or enjoying an extended stay in the country.
Medications
Motion Sickness Medication
will ensure your travels by air, land or sea are more enjoyable without nausea and dizziness tagging along.
Sleep Aids
may be a great addition to your packing list if you struggle with jet lag or sleeplessness due to travel stress or time zone changes.
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Acetazolamide (Diamox)
$79
Tackle high elevations, adjust to altitude and recover from hypoxia so you can keep on climbing.
Altitude Sickness
Atovaquone: Proguanil (Malarone)
$129
Let the anticipation give you chills, not a fever.
Malaria Prevention
Azithromycin
$29
Battle upset-stomach causing bacteria and feel ready for the day in no time.
Traveler’s Diarrhea
Hydroxyzine
$29
A non habit-forming antihistamine taken before bed, to help you sleep, no matter which time zone you find yourself in.
Sleeplessness
Scopolamine Patch
$79
A Scopolamine patch will keep you moving forward, without motion sickness leaving you green in the face.
Motion Sickness
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Treatments
Altitude Sickness
Malaria Prevention
Traveler’s Diarrhea
Sleeplessness
Motion Sickness
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