contraindication to vaccination

Treatment with an antimicrobial agent generally is not a contraindication to vaccination (40).

Therefore, neither pregnancy nor lactation should be considered a contraindication to vaccination of women.

All states allow medical exemptions for persons who have medical contraindication to vaccination.

Immediately below this table is a form for medical contraindications to vaccinations (contre-indictation médicale à la vaccination).

Guide to Contraindications to Vaccinations This guide is designed to help immunization providers determine what common symptoms and conditions should contraindicate vaccination and which ones should not.

These WHO versions do not have pages to show medical contraindication to vaccination, personal health history, state of health, medical treatments, known sensitivities, medications taken regularly, and ophthalmic information.

Pregnancy is not a contraindication to vaccination against hepatitis B. Limited data suggest that a developing fetus is not at risk for adverse events when hepatitis B vaccine is administered to a pregnant woman.

Persons for whom neither a reliable history of completed vaccination against HBV nor a known contraindication to vaccination against HBV exist should receive the first dose of the HBV vaccine series as soon as possible (preferably within 24 hours) and not later than 7 days after the event.

All persons who are not accompanied by either medical records or a health-care proxy and whose ability to communicate an accurate medical history is uncertain for any reason should be deemed to lack a reliable tetanus toxoid vaccination history and to have no contraindication to vaccination with tetanus toxoid (see Contraindications and Precautions).