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Immunizations - travel vaccinations - Management
What types of tick-borne encephalitis vaccines are available?
- Only one vaccine for tick-borne encephalitis is available in the UK. This is an inactivated vaccine:
Basis for recommendation
- These recommendations are based on information from the published literature [DH, 2006c].
- Tick-borne encephalitis vaccine has been shown to be effective against the European subtype, and is probably effective against the more aggressive Far Eastern subtype.
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