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People recommended to receive pre-exposure vaccination

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People who are at a high risk of exposure to the virus or of complications should be offered vaccination (1)

  • people aged 1 year or over, traveling to or going to reside in countries of moderate or high endemicity
    • vaccination is not considered necessary for people who travel to Northern or Western Europe (including Spain, Portugal and Italy), or North America, Australia or New Zealand
    • country-by-country recommendations for hepatitis A vaccine can be found in Health information for overseas travel (www.nathnac.org)
  • patients with chronic liver diseases including people with chronic hepatitis B & C infection
  • patients with haemophilia
  • men who have sex with men
  • injecting drug users
  • individuals at occupational risks
    • laboratory workers
    • staff of some large residential institution
    • sewage workers
    • people who handle primates
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    • food packagers and handlers
    • staff in day care facilities
    • healthcare workers - most healthcare workers are not at increased risk of hepatitis A and routine immunisation is not indicated (1)

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