Travel Advisories

Latest Warnings for MIT Travel Risk Categorizations:

If you are sick with symptoms of influenza-like illness, you should not travel.  Please see the CDC Announcement concerning H1N1 screening at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/content/news-announcements/delays-H1N1-screening.aspx and Department of State Travel Alerts at http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1766.html concerning local responses to the Virus.

Highest Travel Warning:

• Afghanistan
• Guinea
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel, portions of Israel (public transportation throughout Israel, discos and nightclubs throughout Israel, and Old Jerusalem at certain times), the West Bank, Gaza and the vicinity of the Gaza Strip border (including the city of Sderot))
• Phillipines, (portions of the Phillipines: Mindanao Island and the Sulu Archipelago island chain)
• Serbia
• Somalia

High Travel Warning:

• Burundi
• Central African Republic (outside capital city of Bangui)
• Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo (Goma and surrounding areas)
• Eritrea
• Georgia (South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions and adjacent areas and roads to these regions)
• Kenya (small area bordering Somalia and Ethiopia as described in Department of State Travel Warning)
• Lebanon
• Mali (northern regions) Region of Kidal, areas north and east of town of Gao, including along the road to Ansongo, the town of Timbuktu, and points further north.  This restriction includes the site of the popular Tuareg music festival at Essakane, north of Timbuktu.
• Nepal (outside Kathmandu Valley)
• Nigeria (states of Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Imo and Rivers)
• Pakistan
• Sudan
• Yemen

Moderate Travel Warning:

• Algeria (The U.S. Department of State recommends that American citizens avoid overland travel in Algeria, and take particular precautions within the City of Algiers.  Travel restrictions on U.S. Embassy personnel also limit, and at times may prevent, the provision of consular services.)
• Central African Republic(other than areas with High travel warning)
• Colombia
• Congo, Democratic Republic of the
• Georgia (other than areas with High travel warning)
• Haiti
• Israel, (other than the areas with a Highest travel warning)
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya (other than areas with High travel warning)
• Mali (other than areas with High travel warning)
• Nepal (within Kathmandu Valley)
• Nigeria
• Philippines (other than areas with High travel warning)
• Saudi Arabia
• Sri Lanka
• Syria
• Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor)
• Uzbekistan