All the cautions against drink driving, speeding, and unroadworthy vehicles goes many times over in underdeveloped countries. Public transport vehicles while, safer don't usually have seatbelts and often do have bars on the windows, which is not so good if the vehicle catches fire or crashes into deep water with double the recommended number of passengers. Avoid motorcycles, which have the highest accident rate in Australia let alone under developed countries. Yellow Fever Yellow fever is a mosquito borne viral illness that causes fever, vomiting and jaundice. It can result in liver and kidney damage and is often fatal.
Yellow fever is endemic in tropical Africa and America.
It is the only disease for which there are usually legal requirements to produce proof of vaccination when coming from an area where the disease is endemic. Persons over one year of age arriving in Australia and who have within the previous six days been overnight in a country which has been reported by the World Health Organisation as being currently yellow fever infected. These travellers must hold a valid international yellow fever vaccination certificate, or they will be subject to quarantine. Yellow Fever being the potentially lethal disease it is, all travellers to endemic areas should be immunised for their own protection. Yellow Fever vaccination are only given by Government Approved Vacination Centres.