Immunisation against infectious disease / Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.

  • Great Britain. Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
Date:
1988
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    injection within 1 hour of reconstitution. 18.2.3 A single dose correctly given confers immunity in nearly 100% of recipients; immunity persists for at least 10 years and may be for life. 18.3 Recommendations 18.3.1 The following should be vaccinated; a. Laboratory workers handling infected material. b. Persons aged 9 months and over travelling through or living in infected areas. Note. A valid International Certificate of Vaccination is compulsory for entry or travel through endemic areas and may be required for those entering yellow fever receptive areas from an endemic area. Require- ments should be checked with the leaflet ‘The Traveller’s Guide to Health — Before You Go’ SA 40 or the relevant Embassy. 18.3.2 The dose is 0.5ml irrespective of age. The International Certificate is valid for 10 years from the 10th day after primary vaccination and immediately after revaccination. For travellers, yellow fever vaccine is only given at centres approved by WHO (see 18.9). 18.3.3 Revaccination every 10 years is recommended for travellers to infected areas and laboratory workers at special risk. 18.3.4 Normal human immunoglobulin obtained in the UK is unlikely to contain antibody to the yellow fever virus; the vaccine can therefore be given at the same time as an injection of immunoglobulin for travellers abroad. 18.4 Adverse reactions 18.4.1 Severe reactions are extremely rare. Five to ten per cent of recipients have mild headache, myalgia, low-grade fever or soreness at the injection site 5-10 days after vaccination. 18.4.2 The only serious reaction following 17D tissue culture vaccine has been the rare occurrence of encephalitis in young infants, all of