Health

Vaccines

  • Animal serum: you must put off giving blood for 3 months.
  • Anthrax: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Chickenpox: you must wait 8 weeks before giving blood.
  • Cholera: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Colds and flu-like symptoms: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Common cold: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Coronavirus: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Diphtheria: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Epidemic typhus: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Haemophilus influenzae: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Hepatitis A: you can give blood if you are feeling well. If the vaccine was administered due to exposure, you must wait 6 weeks to donate.
  • Hepatitis B: you must put off giving blood for 14 days. If the vaccine was administered due to exposure, you must wait 1 year before donating.
  • Hepatitis B immunoglobulin: if it was administered following exposure, you must wait 1 year before giving blood.
  • Human papillomavirus: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Injectable flu: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Intranasal flu: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Japanese encephalitis: if it is an inactivated vaccine and you are feeling well, you can give blood. If it is a live vaccine, you must wait 8 weeks before giving blood. If you do not know the type of vaccine (inactivated/live), consult your doctor.
  • Measles: you must wait 8 weeks before giving blood.
  • Meningococcal: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Mumps: you must put off giving blood for 8 weeks.
  • Pneumococcal: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Polio: if it is an injectable vaccine, you can give blood as long as you are feeling well. If it was administered orally, put off giving blood for 8 weeks.
  • Rabies: if administered as a preventative measure, you can give blood as long as you are feeling well. If it was administered after a bite, you must put off giving blood for 1 year.
  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.Rubella: you can give blood after 8 weeks.
  • Smallpox: you must wait 8 weeks before giving blood.
  • Tetanus: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Tick-borne encephalitis: as long as you are feeling well, you can give blood.
  • Typhoid fever: if it is an oral vaccine, you must wait 8 weeks before giving blood; if it is injectable, you can donate as long as you are feeling well.
  • Yellow fever: you must wait 8 weeks before giving blood.