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i want to go to chile next summer for a couple of weeks and have found out i will need typhoid immunisation, buts its a live vaccine. i had a k tx 4 yrs ago, am i allowed to do this?
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Hi, You will need to confirm this with your doctor just to make sure. My understaning is that if you are on immunosuppressant therapy then you shouldn't have a live vaccine. However, if you aren't then it should be ok as long as your immune system is not compromised in some other way. I asked this question recently when I had to have the measles vaccine for my US green card application. Had I been immuno-suppressed then I wouldn't have been able to have it, but my nephrologist felt that it was a good idea as I wasn't and have never had measles. I had the injection and suffered no ill effects. Amanda