Yellow Fever Vaccine when traveling from Brazil

Don't get caught out! I had a friend who missed her holiday last year because she didn't have the vaccine. There are over 120 countries that require an international certificate of vaccination for Yellow Fever if you are travelling FROM Brazil. You may be used to travelling to the same country from, say the US or UK but it's not the same if you are travelling from here.

You must have the vaccine 10 days from your date of travel. Here are list of Postos de Saude where you can get your free vaccination. Bring along your RNE, RG or passport and if your children are getting them, their vaccination cards.

If you have a yellow vaccination card that is Brazilian and not an International Card (make sure you ask for one when you get your vaccine) you will have to take it to the ANVISA office in the airport to get them to stamp the card before they issue your boarding pass.

Here is my original post on the yellow fever vaccine

Países que exigem o certificado internacional de vacinação contra febre amarela:
• Afeganistão
• África do Sul
• Albânia
• Angola
• Antígua e Barbuda
• Antilhas Holandesas
• Arábia Saudita
• Argélia
• Austrália
• Bahamas
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Guadalupe
• Guatemala
• Guiana
• Guiana Francesa
• Guiné
• Guiné-Bissau
• Guiné Equatorial
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Iêmen
• Ilha de Pitcairn
• Ilhas Salomão
• Omã
• Panamá
• Papua-Nova Guiné
• Paquistão
• Paraguai
• Peru
• Polinésia Francesa
• Palau
• Portugal
• Quênia
• República Centro-Africana
• Reunião • Belize
• Benin
• Bolívia
• Brasil
• Brunei
• Burkina Fasso
• Burundi
• Butão
• Cabo Verde
• Camarões
• Camboja
• Cazaquistão
• Chade
• China
• Cingapura
• Colômbia
• Congo
• Djibuti
• Dominica
• Egito
• El Salvador
• Equador
• Eritréia
• Etiópia
• Fiji
• Filipinas
• Gabão
• Gâmbia
• Gana
• Granada
• Grécia
• Índia
• Indonésia
• Iraque
• Jamaica
• Jordânia
• Kiribati
• Kuait
• Laos
• Lesoto
• Líbano
• Libéria
• Líbia
• Madagascar
• Malásia
• Malaui
• Maldivas
• Mali
• Malta
• Maurício
• Mauritânia
• México
• Moçambique
• Myanma
• Namíbia
• Nauru
• Nepal
• Nicarágua
• Níger
• Nigéria
• Niue
• Nova Caledônia
• Ruanda
• Samoa Americana
• Samoa Ocidental
• Santa Helena
• Santa Lúcia
• São Cristóvão e Névis
• São Tomé e Príncipe
• São Vicente e Granadinas
• Senegal
• Serra Leoa
• Seychelles
• Síria
• Somália
• Sri Lanka
• Suazilândia
• Sudão
• Suriname
• Tailândia
• Tanzânia
• Togo
• Tonga
• Trinidad e Tobago
• Uganda
• Venezuela
• Vietnã
• Zaire
• Zimbábue

Yellow fever vaccine

We gave our girls (1 year and 3 years at the time) yellow fever injections before our trip to Bonito. Our doctor advised for, but have others that were told not to bother. I'm not one of those mother's who love to vaccinate their kids and would've thought twice about doing it, but we were also travelling to South Africa later. Here is a map of Brazil noting where yellow fever is mainly concentrated.

First thing, try and get your vaccine 10 days before travel at one of the official clinics and ask if you can get an international vaccine certificate / stamp. Hospital Clinicas, Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, s/n, 4º andar, open from 8am - 4pm, Monday to Friday. You don't need to make an appointment. Your dose lasts for 10 years so if you are travelling regular from Brazil to one of these countries, then it's a no brainer.

If you get it done at another clinic, you will then have to pre-register online before your trip and then go to the ANVISA office at the airport to have them issue you an international yellow vaccine certificate which will be accepted by the country you are travelling to. I saw the list of countries and was surprised by how long it was!

Refer here for more information
-  http://www.cve.saude.sp.gov.br/htm/imuni/posto_fainter.htm