Ukraine's state sanitary and epidemiological service has advised foreign fans to get vaccinated against measles before visiting Ukraine during Euro 2012.
"We have sent information to the embassies of all of the countries represented in Ukraine that if you plan to come to Ukraine, please get vaccinated at home. We informed them that the situation with measles is unfavorable in our country," the service’s first deputy chairman, Oleksandr Kravchuk, said at a press conference in Kyiv on April 17.
He described the vaccination of fans at home as "cross protection," because the risk of the outbreak of measles in Ukraine, as well as in the countries to which foreigners will return after the tournament, will fall.
According to Kravchuk, 93 sanitary and quarantine departments of the state sanitary and epidemiological service are operating on the Ukrainian border.
