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Health inspection of passengers/travelers

Monitoring as a preventive and corrective measure from an epidemiological risk standpoint

Inspection and Enforcement activities:

  • Vaccination against yellow fever (Yellow fever)
  • Presentation of valid International Vaccination Certificate by travelers coming from or having transited geographical areas where yellow fever is considered to be endemic;
  • Recommendations given to travelers either proceeding to or arriving from areas in Brazil where yellow fever is considered to be endemic;
  • Guidance given to travelers, airfreight carrying companies and passengers in national or international transit;
  • Health inspection of other diseases of interest to public health (cholera, malaria, plague, dengue, polio and other emergent diseases);
  • Issuing the International Vaccination Certificate (IVC).
  • Dispatch of corpses: may be transported on regular passenger flights, both domestic in Brazil and international.
 
 
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