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Immunizations - travel vaccinations - Management
What are the adverse effects of tick-borne encephalitis vaccine?
- Reported reactions to tick-borne encephalitis vaccine are rare. Local reactions such as swelling, pain, and redness at the injection site may occur.
- Pyrexia, particularly after the first dose, can occur in children and adults, usually within 12 hours of immunization and settling within 24–48 hours.
- Febrile convulsions have rarely occurred.
[DH, 2006c]
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