JPAC Joint United Kingdom (UK) Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee
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1. Immunised Individual

Obligatory

Must not donate if:
a) The inoculation site has not fully healed.

b) Any secondarily infected site has not fully healed.

c) Less than eight weeks from inoculation or from the appearance of any secondarily infected site.

Additional Information

Smallpox immunisation is with live virus. By eight weeks, the infection caused by the inoculation should have been controlled. If the wound has not healed it is possible that there may still be infection present. We do not want to pass the virus, or other infection, on to other donors, staff or to people receiving donated material.

Information

This entry is compliant with the Blood Safety and Quality Regulations 2005.

Update Information

This entry was last updated in:
DSG-WB Edition 202, Release 02.