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Immunizations - travel vaccinations - Management
What schedule is used for poliomyelitis?
- Check that ALL people are up to date with the recommended five-dose schedule for poliomyelitis immunization, regardless of travel arrangements.
- Anyone born before 1958 may not have received poliomyelitis vaccination.
- Children under 10 years of age who have not been vaccinated: vaccinate according to the childhood vaccination programme. See the CKS topic on Immunizations - childhood.
- For children over 10 years of age and adults who have not been vaccinated give:
- A primary course; three doses of vaccine (as Td/IPV) one month apart.
- Two booster doses: the first 5–10 years after the last dose of the primary course, and the second 10 years later.
- Give a booster dose to anyone who has been fully vaccinated (received 5 doses), has not received a booster dose in the last 10 years, and is travelling to polio-endemic regions.
- This is particularly important for health workers in endemic regions.
Basis for recommendation
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