It is advisable that employers or sponsors provide arriving travelers with a clean set of clothing that can be worn after the visitor showers and shampoos thoroughly. Visitor's traveling clothes should be laundered or dry-cleaned immediately. Off-farm activities should be scheduled for the visitor's first five days in the country, and contact with livestock or wildlife should be strictly avoided. Also, you should remember you are prohibited from carrying into the United States any agricultural products, particularly animal products that could spread the disease. Passengers are required to identify any farm contact to Customs and USDA officials.
All baggage is subject to inspection.
When you return to the United States from an FMD-infected area, you may find yourself under more scrutiny from U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors than you might have seen in the past. Additional USDA inspectors and dog teams have joined the regular inspection force to check incoming flights and passengers. The dog teams working at a number of the nation's international airports are part of the USDA Beagle Brigade. The Beagle Brigade is a special unit of passively trained detector dogs in bright green jackets. The beagles sniff out prohibited fruit and meat in the luggage of passengers arriving from overseas.