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Immunizations - travel vaccinations - Management
What are the adverse effects of cholera vaccine?
- Mild gastrointestinal symptoms (abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhoea, nausea) are the most commonly reported symptoms occurring at a frequency of 0.1–1%.
- Serious adverse events, (a flu-like syndrome, rash, arthralgia, and paraesthesia) are rare, occurring in fewer than one per 10,000 doses distributed.
[DH, 2006c]
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