Travel Vaccines

Typhoid Travel Vaccine

Typhoid Travel Vaccine

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Typhoid Travel Vaccine

Typhoid is a bacterial infection acquired due to a specific type of Salmonella. It can affect the organs and without treatment can be fatal.

Typhoid fever is highly contagious. It is spread via the poo or urine of an infected person. If someone else eats food and drinks water that has been contaminated, then they also become infected with typhoid fever.

Typhoid is common in areas of the world with poor sanitation or limited clean water access. Children are most at risk as their immune system is still developing.

The majority of travel related infections in the UK occur in those visiting friends and relatives in countries of the Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, India and Pakistan). There is also risk when travelling to Africa, South America, and Asia.

Symptoms

Symptoms of typhoid fever are: a high temperature, headache, aches and pains, constipation or diarrhoea and a rash. If typhoid isn’t treated then up to 1 in 5 people with the condition will die.

Prevention

The risk of acquiring typhoid or paratyphoid can be reduced by ensuring good personal hygiene and following advice on the prevention of food and water-borne diseases.

Typhoid vaccination

Vaccination is recommended for travellers whose planned activities put them at higher risk of typhoid infection in areas where sanitation and food hygiene are likely to be poor. Vaccinations currently available only protect against typhoid and not paratyphoid infection. Both oral and injectable vaccines are available. Some vaccinations are combined with hepatitis A.

Public Health England’s Immunisation against infectious disease states: children between the ages of 12 months and two years should be immunised if the risk of typhoid fever is considered high. Immunisation is not recommended for children under one year of age. When children are too young to benefit fully from typhoid vaccination, scrupulous attention to personal, food and water hygiene measures should be exercised by the caregiver.

Length of protection

Following a single dose of an injectable or a complete course of oral typhoid vaccine, reinforcing immunisation should be offered at three-year intervals for those at continued risk. Booster vaccination of oral typhoid consists of 3 further capsules.

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