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[Inoculation for tourism (author's transl)].

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The inoculations prescribed or recommended by the authorities responsible on the basis of the International Health Regulations for international tourism are first discussed and the contraindications gone into. Then some inoculations or measures for specific prophylaxis are presented for which there are no international regulations, but which have a particular significance from the point of view of tourism. These are inoculations against poliomyelitis, tetanus, typhoid fever and prophylaxis of hepatitis A with conventional gamma globulin.

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R Haas. 1976-08-27. [Inoculation for tourism (author's transl)].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/60697/

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