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Passengers entering or leaving China are subject to
hygienic inspection by border quarantine offices at ports opened to
foreigners.
Those who carry such unusual articles as microorganisms, human body tissues,
biological products, and blood and its products, should declare to the
quarantine department, and submit these articles to quarantine inspections.
Those who have brought, or consigned for shipment, luggage or objects, which
may cause the spread of contagious diseases should accept quarantine
inspections. The quarantine inspection department is obliged to handle or
destroy foodstuffs, drinks and aquatic products contaminated by contagious
diseases.
Passengers from areas infested with yellow fever should, when entering
China, present to the quarantine department effective certificates showing
that they have been inoculated against yellow fever. Those who have failed
to present valid certificates shall be retained for observation for six days
beginning from the day they left the infested area, or they shall be
inoculated and retained until the certificates come into effect.
It is the task of the Chinese quarantine department to deny entry to
foreigners suffering AIDS, venereal diseases, leprosy, mental diseases and
open tuberculosis. |
