What vaccinations are required for travel to Brazil?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website provides recommended and/or required vaccinations for each country. For Brazil, it recommends that you should be up-to-date with routine shots such as measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine, diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus (DPT) vaccine, and poliovirus vaccine, and that you get vaccinated for Hepatitis A and Typhoid, and Hepatitis B, depending upon your travel plans. Brazil does not require travelers to present proof of yellow fever vaccination. The CDC recommends Yellow Fever vaccination if you are traveling to the ENTIRE states of Acre, Amap, Amazones, Distrito Federal (including the capital city of Braslia), Gois, Maranho, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Par, Rondnia, Roraima, and Tocantins; and the designated areas of the following states: northwest and west Bahia, central and west Paran, southwest Piau, northwest and west central Rio Grande do Sul, far west Santa Catarina, and north and west So Paulo. Vaccination is
