AQSIQ Announcement No. 189, 2012 Preventing Yellow Fever from Sudan

As per World Health Organization report of November 14 on the outbreak of yellow fever in Sudan, the AQSIQ hereby announces the requirements as below in accordance with China Law on Frontier Health Quarantine:

1. Any person from Sudan, including one-year-old infants, upon their entry to China territory, shall present to the entry inspection-quarantine agency their valid certificates on yellow-fever vaccination; those without such certificates shall be subjected to immediate quarantine for not-more-than six days counted from the date of their exit from Sudan.

2. Any person from Sudan, if suffering fever and jaundice, shall declare their symptoms upon their entry, and if suffering after their entry, shall seek medical advice immediately.

The local inspection-quarantine agencies shall strengthen temperature check and medical examination over the persons from the infected areas and conduct quarantined examination over the infected patients or the suspected.

3. Any vehicles and containers from Sudan shall be treated with mosquito eradication. The local inspection-quarantine agencies shall take strict efforts to eradicate mosquitoes and other pests around the vehicles, containers and port facilities.

4. Any persons to visit Sudan shall inquire for relevant information to local entry-exit inspection-quarantine agencies or on the AQSIQ website (http://www.aqsiq.gov.cn), and shall be vaccinated against yellow fever.

5. New entrants to the infected area show case fatality rates of 30%-40%, and therefore any visitor should be vaccinated ten days in advance and should prevent from being bitten by mosquitoes/pests there.

6. This Announcement shall take effect upon issuance and govern for three months.


General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection & Quarantine

November 28, 2012