Get sick during a trip is certainly a loss: useless days in a hotel room, costs of doctors and medicines not expected, and more.

The medicine of the traveler today is a specialty that aims to guide, inform and protect the tourists and the communities that receive. The medical advice for the traveler must consist of a medical consultation, since personal factors interfere with the susceptibility of each (previous illnesses, family factors, vaccines received, etc.). That doctor, specializing in travel medicine, is who will relate personal risks and risks of each region of the globe, and than guided properly.

Get vaccinate is very important, warns against diseases that can be avoided. For each destination, a different orientation. Some vaccines may be mandatory, others recommended for each region of the world. It is important to be vaccinated in advance.

In addition to vaccines, the traveler must be informed of basic care to be taken in each of their destinations.

Many countries require international certificate of vaccination against certain diseases. The recommendation is that the tourist always contact the consulate or embassy of the country who want to visit to get these and other information. Countries such as Nepal, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela require the vaccine against yellow fever.

Tourists can be vaccinated in the Health section of the existing ports in some international airports, such as Guarulhos and Campinas in Sao Paulo and Galeao in Rio de Janeiro. Always check the hours of operation of the Ports of Health, not to run out the risk of running of vaccine, which prevents the entry into countries that require this procedure. Some vaccines must be taken in advance, such as yellow fever (ten days before the trip) and against hepatitis A (two doses in the range of a month). So people living in distant cities can be vaccinated at any post of vaccination and present proof on the Health of Ports, on boarding, to get the international certificate of vaccination.