The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Brazil: Health Requirements

The website www.cdc.gov has country specific requirements and updates. Below is a summary of recommended and required vaccines, but please visit the CDC site for more detailed and specific information about other diseases to be aware of in the area (such as malaria, dengue etc).

Required:

A Yellow Fever International Immunization Certificate is only mandatory if you have traveled to one of the following countries within the last 90 days:

Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Peru, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire) or Venezuela.

Recommended:

• Your routine vaccines if you are not up to date (measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine, diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus (DPT) vaccine, poliovirus vaccine, etc.)
• Typhoid
• Yellow Fever (if traveling advisable if applicant's destination in Brazil includes any of the following States: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima, Tocantins and the Federal District.) Vaccination should be given 10 days before travel and at 10 year intervals if there is on-going risk
• Hepatitis A & B
• Rabies

*Malaria and Dengue alerts

To have the most benefit, see a health-care provider at least 4-6 weeks before your trip to allow time for your vaccines to take effect and to start taking medicine to prevent malaria, if you need it. Remember to check in about anti-malaria drugs and other medications and information about how to protect yourself from illness and injury while traveling.