Yellow fever certificate

htid · Mar 13th, 2008, 20:27

When we fly to India we'll be transferring through Doha in Qatar but won't be leaving the airport. According to the travel nurse and the WHO (she was just reading it from the WHO site actually..) it says you don't need a certificate if you stay within the airport of a country that has a Yellow Fever risk.

I just want to make sure that's going to be acceptable to customs, does anybody know? Anyone transferred through Qatar and been OK? Do they just base it on if you have a stamp for whichever country you've transferred through, in your passport? I assume if we just transfer, we'll not get a Qatar stamp so they won't even know?

Thanks for any advice.

Nick-H · Mar 13th, 2008, 21:06

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Any person, Foreigner or Indian, (excluding infants below six months) arriving by air or sea without a vaccination certificate of yellow fever will be kept in quarantine isolation for a period up to 6 days if: :

1. He arrives in India within 6 days of departure/transit from a yellow fever endemic area.

2. Has come on a ship which has started from or transited at any port in a yellow fever endemic country within 30 days of its arrival in India provided such ship has not been disinfected in accordance with the procedure laid down by WHO.

But lots of people arrive on flights via various Arab countries, and I never heard anyone bother. Is there something specific about Qatar? I've flown via Kuwait and some other, I forget which.

atala · Mar 13th, 2008, 21:12

I have flown thru Dubai. No problem at all. They would have to quarantine thousands every day if flying thru an Emirate would count as having been thru an yellow fewer affected area.

keeperlit · Mar 13th, 2008, 22:57

I've been to Qatar and other gulf countries a lot and I have never known Yellow Fever to be a risk. My Company is good with stuff like that, I would have got the jab if needed. Only time I ever got YF jab was for travel to South America.

See: http://www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk/...ions/qatar.htm
Which makes no mention of YF. I didn't look at WHO site.

htid · Mar 13th, 2008, 23:35

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Originally Posted by Nick-H

But lots of people arrive on flights via various Arab countries, and I never heard anyone bother. Is there something specific about Qatar? I've flown via Kuwait and some other, I forget which.

Nope, just wanted to make sure

I thought I'd seen that Qatar has a yellow fever risk but I must be wrong. Thanks.

manojb · Mar 14th, 2008, 14:58

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Originally Posted by htid

According to the travel nurse and the WHO (she was just reading it from the WHO site actually..) it says you don't need a certificate if you stay within the airport of a country that has a Yellow Fever risk.

This is true, but it also depends on the immigration official you are dealing with. I once transited through Sao Paulo, which is in a Yellow Fever risk area, but never left the airport. However, I was asked for my Yellow Fever certificate in Mumbai by the immigration officer in Mumbai. I had one, but I don't know what would have happened if I hadn't. I suspect I could have cleared it up with explanations, but I had the additional complication that my ticket was Sao Paulo to Mumbai, the earlier leg being on a separate ticket.

Mar 13th, 2008, 20:27	#1
htid Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Sheffield, England Posts: 129	Yellow fever certificate When we fly to India we'll be transferring through Doha in Qatar but won't be leaving the airport. According to the travel nurse and the WHO (she was just reading it from the WHO site actually..) it says you don't need a certificate if you stay within the airport of a country that has a Yellow Fever risk. I just want to make sure that's going to be acceptable to customs, does anybody know? Anyone transferred through Qatar and been OK? Do they just base it on if you have a stamp for whichever country you've transferred through, in your passport? I assume if we just transfer, we'll not get a Qatar stamp so they won't even know? Thanks for any advice.

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Mar 13th, 2008, 21:12	#3
atala Senior Member, 8 yrs in India Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Switzerland, just back from India 2008 Posts: 691	I have flown thru Dubai. No problem at all. They would have to quarantine thousands every day if flying thru an Emirate would count as having been thru an yellow fewer affected area.

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keeperlit Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Ireland Posts: 5	I've been to Qatar and other gulf countries a lot and I have never known Yellow Fever to be a risk. My Company is good with stuff like that, I would have got the jab if needed. Only time I ever got YF jab was for travel to South America. See: http://www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk/...ions/qatar.htm Which makes no mention of YF. I didn't look at WHO site.

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