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Immunizations - travel vaccinations - Management
What are the adverse effects of the typhoid fever vaccine?
- Local reactions (pain, swelling, erythema, and induration at injection site) are the most commonly reported symptoms following inactivated typhoid vaccine. These symptoms are usually mild and transient.
- Systemic reactions following the vaccine are infrequent. Fever occurs in about 1% of vaccine recipients. Headache, nausea, diarrhoea, and abdominal pain have been reported but are uncommon.
- There have been rare reports of anaphylaxis.
[DH, 2006c]
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