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Welcome to Travelturtle, the travel website that provides you with country specific medical and vaccination reports usually only available to registered UK healthcare professionals.
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Welcome to Travelturtle, the travel health advice site that provides you with country specific medical and vaccination reports usually only available to registered UK healthcare professionals.

Use this link to access key information about travel vaccination and travel vaccination advice.

  • Find helpful listings of all major travel vaccines.
  • Find pertinent information in regards to the delivery of each travel vaccine.
  • Look at other factors such as who can have the treatment, and its compatibility with other treatments.
  • Find information about costs, and where it can be obtained.
  • See contemporary data about who provides the service and its length of protection.

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Click on the following links for information about travel vaccines available in the UK and the diseases they protect against.

Tuberculosis

1 . BCG
Vaccine Type
Live Vaccine
Mode of Delivery
Injection
Vaccine Schedule
Live vaccine - can either be given at same time as another live vaccine or separately by a 4 week interval. Certificate obligatory and is issued by the immunisation centre. No vaccine must be given in the same arm for 3 months. One dose intradermally after Mantoux tuberculin testing to ensure no previous immunity
Minimum Age
1 day
Compatibility
Can be given with other vaccines
Duration Of Protection
28 years
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Availability
NHS
BCG should be offered to those intending to live or work in high prevalance countries (tuberculosis rates or 40/100,000 or greater) for extended periods (generally one month or longer), who have not been previously vaccinated, and who have a negative tuberculin skin test.
No other vaccinations should be given in the same arm as the BCG vaccination for up to 3 months. If other 'live' vaccines such as Yellow Fever are required they should be given at the same time as the BCG vaccination or 4 weeks before or after its administration.
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