France: Not Required.
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Not Required. No yellow fever transmission risk and no entry requirement, regardless of where you're arriving from.
France: Not Required. No yellow fever transmission risk and no entry requirement, regardless of where you're arriving from.
France has no legal entry requirement for yellow fever vaccination, regardless of where you're arriving from.
You can be denied boarding by the airline before you even leave, or quarantined, fined, or vaccinated on the spot on arrival — this is an actively enforced border requirement, not just general health advice.
General health advisories cover what vaccines are recommended for your own protection. This is specifically about the legal document — the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis — that a border official can require you to show before letting you in.
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