Since management efforts have greatly reduced threats from habitat loss, disease remains a single-most significant threat to mountain gorillas. Conservation personnel and tourists are potential “vectors” that could pass human diseases to habituated gorillas. Vaccination and treatment of humans visiting the great apes have been strongly advocated but willingness to adopt this by the visitors had not been studied. A self reporting questionnaire was administered in Uganda to tourists visiting Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary (NICS) where up-to-date tourist vaccinations are required before visiting, and to tourists and staff of Bwindi-Mgahinga Conservation Area (BMCA) where vaccinations were not a prerequisite to gorilla tracking. Most of tourists visiting BMCA (87%) and NICS (69%) had been vaccinated for most of the diseases. The BMCA staff had mostly been vaccinated against childhood diseases and no updates had been done.. The vaccination status for NICS tourists were significantly (P
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