LATEST IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE BUREAU OF QUARANTINE

Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (c), Section 5 of Republic
Act No. 123 and Section 19 of the Quarantine Regulations, attention is
invited to the following vaccination certificate requirements for
international travel:

A
Vaccination Certificate Requirements

1) Smallpox — arrivals from all countries.

2) Cholera — arrivals from coastal provinces of the
People’s Republic of China, Hongkong, Macao, Calcutta, and Sarawak (
Kuching and Simanggang). Any arrival from an infected local area not in
possession of a valid certificate shall be placed in isolation for a
period of five (5) days reckoned from the date of departure from the
infected local area.  Any arrival from such areas with a valid
certificate shall be placed under surveillance for a period of five (5)
days reckoned from the date of departure from the infected local area. 
No certificate is required from children under one year of age.  Such
children, however, shall be placed under surveillance for the same
period.

3) Yellow Fever — arrivals by air from:

(a)   South America: — Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia and Peru.

(b)   Africa: — Angola, Southern Cameroons, Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Ruanda Urindi, Sierra Leone and Sudan.

Any person arriving by air from an infected local area
without a valid certificate of vaccination against yellow fever shall be
isolated until the certificate becomes valid or until a period of not
more than six (6) days reckoned from the date of last possible exposure
to infection has elapsed. No certificate is required from children under
one year of age who are, however, subject to isolation or surveillance
when indicated.

B
Validity of Certificates

1) The validity of a smallpox vaccination certificate shall extend
for a period of three (3) years, beginning eight (8) days after the date
of a successful primary vaccination or, in the event of a
revaccination, on the date of that vaccination.

2) The validity of a cholera vaccination certificate shall extend
for a period of six (6) months, beginning six (6) days after the first
injection of the vaccine or, in the event of, a revaccination within
such period of six (6) months, on the date of that revaccination.

3) The validity of a yellow fever vaccination certificate shall
extend for a period of six (6) years, beginning ten (10) days after the
date of vaccination or, in the event of a revaccination within such a
period of six (6) years, from the date of that revaccination.  Such
certificate is valid only if the vaccine used has been approved by the
World Health Organization and if the vaccinating center has been
designated by the health administration for the territory in which it is
situated.

C
Management of Arrivals not Properly Documented

Any person arriving in the Philippines without the required
vaccination certificates mentioned above shall be considered not
properly documented.  Under the terms of paragraph 3.26 of the
International Standards and Recommended Practices, Facilitation, Annex
9, to the Convention of the International Civil Aviation, such person
may be refused admission and the operator shall be responsible for
promptly returning him to the point where he commenced the use of the
operator’s conveyance.

However, should a person not properly documented as mentioned in the
previous paragraph be finally admitted, the operator shall be
responsible for all expenses that shall be incurred if the person shall
be isolated.

Strict compliance with the requirements stipulated in this Quarantine Administrative Order is hereby enjoined.

Adopted: 12 Sept. 1961

(SGD.) J. C. AZURIN
Colonel, B. Q.
Director of Quarantine

Effective: 12 September 1961