Good day y'all, I hope you're well.
Listen, I tried my absolute best to get this Yellow Fever Vaccination. Where I am, the shot is at least $500 and I just can't afford it right now. I tried many many insurances, health insurance, Co-Insurances, and none of them really cover for it, and reasonable so, because this vaccine is a travel vaccine (luxury) and I don't have any yellow fever either (so I can't really meet the pre-existing quota to qualify to get the vaccine for free of charge through any health insurance) but I need it because I am headed off to Brazil soon, and I will be in Manaus. I really need this vaccine.
Has anyone had any recent experience with this vaccine at the airport into Brazil as a foreigner TO Brazil? Meaning you went to Brazil as either an American or Canadian, or anyone else other than Brazilian and you experienced anything as far as Border agents stopping you or requiring you to show proof of Yellow Fever Vaccination? Obviously, you might be saying, "Well you should not be scared of paperwork rather you should be scared of the disease itself and get vaccinated anyway," I hear you, but I heard that you can get the Yellow Fever Vaccination for free once you enter Brazil and attend one of their care units for FREE. Is that true? If so, then please let me know how I can tell the border agents that I would like to get the YF vaccination in Brazil or even at the Brazilian Airports, I just need to know how to go about it because other people whom I will be talking with may misunderstand me as I am not totally fluent in Brazilian Portuguese, I do have a good translator, but I need to know exactly how to address that I do not have the Yellow Fever Vaccination and that I would like to get the vaccination at the airports or at least inside Brazil at a care facility. How do I or rather, how should I go about this? Please please let me know if you've recently experienced something like this. I would greatly greatly and greatly appreciate it