Only had to go to Sao Paulo twice and never wanted to go back.
Ever been on a flight where CDC detected someone had TB? I have. It was a flight from Angola. The speed and efficiency with which CDC detected the carrier, learned where we were sitting in relationship to him, called us and tested us was truly amazing. Somehow our gubment works in that condition. I knew of one other case many years prior and the very same speedy efficient process took place.
Nobody on the flight actually contracted active TB but some were identified as carriers and now must be tested for the rest of their lives I understand. Thankfully I was not one of them. One of my co-workers was though.
As many places as I have been and as many times I have flown I have a relative who has done even more. He has a stick pin map in his home office that looks like a pin cushion. Anywhere people grow chickens and that is all over the world except Antartica.
I work in Houston in oil and gas and lots of folks around me go to Angola. There’s a direct flight from Houston, but you knew that.
My doc said his job is boring save for the folks that come back from Africa with a thing on, or in, their body.
“Ever been on a flight where CDC detected someone had TB?”
Nope. Wouldn’t wish that on anyone.