Disaster Recovery Information: Interim Immunization Recommendations for Individuals Displaced by a Disaster

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  The purpose of these recommendations is two-fold:
  
  1. To ensure that children, adolescents, and adults are protected against vaccine- preventable diseases in accordance with current recommendations. Immunization records are unlikely to be available for a large number of adult and child evacuees. It is important that immunizations are kept current if possible.
  
  2. To reduce the likelihood of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in large crowded group settings. Hepatitis A incidence is low in the United States; therefore, evacuees housed temporarily in congregate settings should not need hepatitis A vaccine unless they have been evacuated from an area where exposure to hepatitis A virus is likely or have been exposed to persons with suspected or proven hepatitis A infection. Persons who evacuate their homes under orderly conditions at the advisement of state or local officials to a congregate setting where sanitary conditions prevail should not require hepatitis A vaccine.
  
  vaccrecdisplaced.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disasters
• Series:
  Disaster Safety
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  3 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/51316/cdc_51316_DS1.pdf
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