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When you make an appointment at your medical system’s Travel Clinic before your trip to Brazil, they always ask you when and what country are you going.
Before you come, they prepare the packet for you with all the info and they look for guidelines of what is required. The doctor looks for recommendations issued by the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/brazil
(Click this link to see for yourself)
It is highly advisable to go, if possible, to a facility that uses the same system where your doctors are and where your records stored. Then, the system, such as for example EPIC, will show the information that you might not remember. Travel Clinics “live” within Infectious Diseases Departments. So, if you do not see travel clinic listed as a separate entity, call Infectious Diseases.
However, you are right: it is good to be prepared. They might not know that you are not up-to-date on Tetanus for example but you do need it.
First priority
- Tetanus
- Yellow fever
- Hepatitis A
- Prescriptions for Malarone (if you are going to the jungle area) and for a broad action antibiotic.
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