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Vaccine Requirements Versus Recommendations

• Requirement: A vaccine is required when you have to show proof of immunization for entry into a country. These vaccinations are generally required to keep you from bringing a disease into the country.
• Recommendation: A vaccine recommendation is made when a disease exists in a country and there is a vaccine available for protection against that disease.

Quick Summary of Vaccines

• Hepatitis A: "Should NOT leave home without it!" Hepatitis A is a viral disease transmitted via contaminated food and water. The Hepatitis A virus can be found worldwide, even in the United States. Countries with high or imminent risk are found in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe.

• Typhoid (oral or injectable): Typhoid fever is a bacterial disease, also spread through contaminated food and water. Risk for exposure to typhoid often exists in the same locations as Hepatitis A.

• Hepatitis B: Hepatitis B is a virus transmitted through contact with blood and/or body fluids. Risk for exposure to Hepatitis B is worldwide.

• Twinrix (Adult Hepatitis A & B): Hepatitis A/B vaccine is a great way to get vaccinated for both Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B at the same time.

• Japanese Encephalitis (JAE): JAE is also a viral disease spread by mosquitos from infected animals (usually pigs and wading birds) to humans. Recommendations are made according to your itinerary.

• Meningococcal Meningitis: Bacterial Meningococcal disease enters the body through the upper respiratory tract. This disease frequently occurs in large epidemics in developing countries.
[To read more ... visit National Meningitis Association's website]

• Rabies: Many developing countries do not have animal vaccination programs and some do not have access to the treatment, Rabies Immune Globulin, that is needed when exposed. Therefore, rabies vaccine pre-exposure may be recommended.

• Immune Globulin (IG): IG is used for infants below the recommended minimum age for Hepatitis A vaccine.

Routine Immunizations:

The following vaccines are routine immunizations
that everyone in the United States should get
according to appropriate guidelines.

• Influenza

• Measles/Mumps/Rubella

• Pneumococcal

• Polio

• PPD Skin Testing (TB)

• Tetanus/Diphtheria/Pertussis

• Varicella (Chickenpox)

Travel Immunizations:

When you're planning for international travel, you always need to make sure that you have the proper documentation to meet the country's requirements. But, what does that entail? Everyone remembers that they have to bring their passports when they travel to foreign countries. What some people forget until it is too late, however, is that many countries have vaccination requirements that international travelers must meet. This is particularly true of those that have had cases of certain diseases in the past.

Visit our Travel Medical Services page to learn more about preventative travel medicine, required and recommended vaccinations, and our customized approach to your travel immunizations.

Vaccines and Immunizations offered by Passport Health Miami:

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Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Twinrix
Influenza
Japanese Encephalitis
Measles-Mumps-Rubella
Meningococcal
Tetanus/Diphtheria
Pertussis
Pneumococcal
Poliomyelitis
Typhoid
Anthrax

Rabies (pre and post exposure)
Yellow Fever (State certified)
Varicella (Chickenpox)

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