People recommended to receive pre-exposure vaccination
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
- under certain circumstances in
- 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)
Reference:
- UK Health Security Agency. Immunisation against infectious disease. Hepatitis A. Published September 2013, last updated October 2024
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