How is the vaccine administered to Travellers?

Ideally the vaccine should be administered 30 days before you travel.
Protective levels from 2 weeks
Protective level 7-10 days after 3rd dose.

Booster

Booster after 3 years
Under review by the
JCVI

AREAS HIGHLY AFFECTED

Typhoid fever is more common in parts of the world with poor sanitation. People in close contact with a typhoid carrier. Laboratory workers who work with Salmonella Typhoid bacteria.

SIDE EFFECTS

• Pain
• Tenderness
• Redness
• Swelling
• Hard lump where the shot was given
• Low fever
• nausea
• Diarrhoea
• Stomach pain
• Headache

WHO MUST NOT TAKE THIS VACCINATION

• If the person getting the vaccine has any severe, life-threatening allergies and children under 2 years of age.

FACTS – Did You Know that?

• Typhoid fever usually is caused by Salmonellae typhi bacteria.
• Typhoid fever is contracted by the ingestion of contaminated food or water.
• Diagnosis of typhoid fever is made when the Salmonella bacteria is detected with a stool culture.
• Typhoid fever is treated with antibiotics.

What is Typhoid Fever?

Description

The only way to know for sure if an illness is typhoid fever is to have samples of stool or blood tested for the presence of Salmonella Typhi.

Transmission

Typhoid fever is a systemic infection caused by Salmonella Typhi, usually through ingestion of contaminated food or water.

Symptoms

Symptoms are often non-specific and clinically non-distinguishable from other febrile illnesses. However, clinical severity varies and severe cases may lead to serious complications or even death.

Treatment

Hospital admission is usually recommended and an antibiotic therapy

Prevention

An injectable polysaccharide vaccine based on the purified Vi antigen (known as Vi-PS vaccine) for persons aged two years and above; and a live attenuated oral Ty21a vaccine in capsule formulation for those over five years of age.