Staying healthy in Brazil

Staying healthy is the key to enjoying the best holiday in Brazil!

Make sure you're up to date with immunisations against those diseases:

DIPHTHERIA	by breathing in diphtheria bacteria after an infected person has laughed, coughed, or sneezed the bacterium onto the victim
HEPATITIS 'A'	through the oral-faecal (mouth-anus) route and through contaminated food and water. Shellfish such as oysters and mussels are frequently responsible but milk, cold meats and other food contaminated during preparation are potential sources. Rarely, it may be obtained through contaminated blood products.
HEPATITIS 'B'	by contact with contaminated blood (e.g. transfusion with infected blood, sharing needles and syringes with intravenous drug users, body piercers and tattooists), sexual intercourse (homosexual and heterosexual) with an infected partner, from other body fluids and secretions (the virus can be found in saliva, or may be transmitted from an infected mother to her baby)
POLIO :	spread by food, water or hands contaminated with faeces of infected persons
RABIES	from the saliva of an infected or rabid animal, usually a dog, cat or a monkey
TETANUS	from contact with soil, animal and human intestines
TUBERCULOSIS (TB)	when an active case of the disease cough, laugh or sneeze and spread microscopic droplets into the air
TYPHOID FEVER	ingesting food or water contaminated by the typhoid bacterium: contamination is most likely when cooked food is handled or left un-refrigerated
YELLOW FEVER	from monkey to monkey by mosquitos' bites in the forest canopy, then to humans