Yellow Fever

[Freddie_fly]

For the last eight months and (unfortunately) for probably the next eight months, I am working in West Africa. Specifically Angola/Nigeria/Gabon/Ghana. My company usually flies me via Johannesburg or London Heath row. Last time due to delays we missed our flight via London and I eventually got out via Ethiopian Airlines from Luanda to Addis abbaba to Bkk. after queuing for 35 minutes I realized that they were turning people back from my flight because they didn't have the health stamp. So I trotted back into the shopping mall and found the health counter, showed them my yellow fever stamp and then went through immigration.

I have been traveling for 27 years to Thailand and many times from Africa or South America and have never once had to show my yellow fever card, suddenly realized why, I generally never traveled direct, normally through Europe or japan/Singapore. I was amazed at the number of people who were protesting at the health counter and being ordered to get a shot there and then (Caucasians all).

The question is what does it matter if hundreds/thousands are arriving from yellow fever areas via Non yellow fever areas and not getting asked about it. There is a little tick box on many immigration cards asking if you have been to a yellow fever area in the last six months.....how many people fill it in ??

regards

Freddie

[Krub]

For the last eight months and (unfortunately) for probably the next eight months, I am working in West Africa. Specifically Angola/Nigeria/Gabon/Ghana. My company usually flies me via Johannesburg or London Heath row. Last time due to delays we missed our flight via London and I eventually got out via Ethiopian Airlines from Luanda to Addis abbaba to Bkk. after queuing for 35 minutes I realized that they were turning people back from my flight because they didn't have the health stamp. So I trotted back into the shopping mall and found the health counter, showed them my yellow fever stamp and then went through immigration.

I have been traveling for 27 years to Thailand and many times from Africa or South America and have never once had to show my yellow fever card, suddenly realized why, I generally never traveled direct, normally through Europe or japan/Singapore. I was amazed at the number of people who were protesting at the health counter and being ordered to get a shot there and then (Caucasians all).

The question is what does it matter if hundreds/thousands are arriving from yellow fever areas via Non yellow fever areas and not getting asked about it. There is a little tick box on many immigration cards asking if you have been to a yellow fever area in the last six months.....how many people fill it in ??

regards

Freddie

Same in Tokyo Narita. Fly in direct from Indonesia and you fill in a quarantine card. Come in via Hong Kong and bingo nothing needed !

[libya 115]

For the last eight months and (unfortunately) for probably the next eight months, I am working in West Africa. Specifically Angola/Nigeria/Gabon/Ghana. My company usually flies me via Johannesburg or London Heath row. Last time due to delays we missed our flight via London and I eventually got out via Ethiopian Airlines from Luanda to Addis abbaba to Bkk. after queuing for 35 minutes I realized that they were turning people back from my flight because they didn't have the health stamp. So I trotted back into the shopping mall and found the health counter, showed them my yellow fever stamp and then went through immigration.

I have been traveling for 27 years to Thailand and many times from Africa or South America and have never once had to show my yellow fever card, suddenly realized why, I generally never traveled direct, normally through Europe or japan/Singapore. I was amazed at the number of people who were protesting at the health counter and being ordered to get a shot there and then (Caucasians all).

The question is what does it matter if hundreds/thousands are arriving from yellow fever areas via Non yellow fever areas and not getting asked about it. There is a little tick box on many immigration cards asking if you have been to a yellow fever area in the last six months.....how many people fill it in ??

regards

Freddie

Same in Tokyo Narita. Fly in direct from Indonesia and you fill in a quarantine card. Come in via Hong Kong and bingo nothing needed !

Fancy 2 weeks in Japan, all expenses paid including food and accommodation?

Simply tick the boxes on the arrival health declaration form upon arrival into Narita airport; 'recent abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea'

You will immediately be surrounded by masked medics; who will airlift you to an isolation ward hospital.........

[PeaceBlondie]

How many Thai consulates and embassies check your passport stamps for countries known to have yellow fever? Houston honorary consulate - known to be lenient in some respects - immediately noticed my Venezuela stamp (which was within the prior 4 months) and requested to see a vaccination record (which I had before going to Venez.).

///Come to think of it, I went to Thailand as a tourist shortly after Venezuela, and walked right in to Thailand without q question.

[toret]

I am in Brazil at the moment, and due to, eh, lousy planning, I forgot to check the vaccine requirements for the country, which has plenty of Yellow Fever around. And arriving in Salvador instead of Sao Paolo, nobody checked or injected me on arrival either.

So I went to the local village immunisation office and got my free shot today. But they didn´t have any international paper, the lady there just wrote Febre Amarela, the date, a serial number(?) and signature below the entry stamp in my passport.

Anybody got a clue if this will be a problem when I come to LOS in a couple of months?

*I think I have Yellow Fever, I miss Thailand sooo much*