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Immunizations - travel vaccinations - Management
When is typhoid fever vaccine contraindicated?
- Do not give inactivated typhoid vaccine if the person:
- Has a current severe febrile illness.
- Has had a confirmed anaphylactic reaction to a previous dose of typhoid vaccine.
- Has had a confirmed anaphylactic reaction to neomycin (present in trace amount in Hepatyrix® and ViATIM® vaccines).
Basis for recommendation
- These recommendations are based on expert opinion from the published literature [DH, 2006c].
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