Just as a sidenote, most of my guests who have visited travel doctors back home were advised to get Yellow Fever vaccinations to visit Rio, something that is NOT actually required!
It's Dengue season again - Expat American Living in Brazil has a travel alert/update on the situation - check it out here.
Luckily Rio is not yet affected. Thank goodness for me because pregnant women's oxygen-rich blood is apparently a magnet for mosquitoes!
The dengue fever can not be transmitted from one person to another person directly, so the dengue is not at all a contagious disease. A certain type of dengue mosquito is responsible for transmitting the dengue fever from one person to another person
Posted by: Dengue Fever | May 23, 2011 at 02:29 AM