Guidance

TB, BCG and your baby

Information about the BCG vaccination being offered to protect your baby against tuberculosis (TB).

From:
UK Health Security Agency
Published
29 November 2013
Last updated
18 April 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

TB, BCG vaccine and your baby

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TB, BCG and your baby leaflet

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TB BCG and your baby poster

Ref: UKHSA gateway number: 2021570

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TB, BCG and your baby leaflet

This leaflet contains the current information on tuberculosis and the BCG vaccine including the benefits and contraindications for BCG immunisation in infants.

Paper copies of this leaflet are available to order for free or download in the following languages:

English, Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kurdish, Nepali, Panjabi, Pashto, Romanian, Romany, Somali, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Urdu.

A quick links poster with QR codes to the English and translated versions of the TB, BCG and your baby leaflet is available to download.

TB, BCG and your baby poster

This poster is aimed at parents and carers of babies who may be at risk of tuberculosis and need a BCG vaccine to protect them.

Paper copies of the poster are available to order for free.

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Immunisation Publications
UK Health Security Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, Colindale
London
NW9 5EQ

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Telephone: 0300 123 1002

Copies of printed publications and the full range of digital resources to support the immunisation programmes can now be ordered and downloaded online. Log in to register and place your order.

Updates to this page

Published 29 November 2013
Last updated 18 April 2023 + show all updates

  1. Added links to Romanian and Romany translations.

  2. Added links to Kurdish and Turkish translations.

  3. Added link to the quick links QR codes poster.

  4. Added link to Ukrainian translation.

  5. Added links to translated versions of the TB, BCG and your baby leaflet.

  6. Updated TB, BCG vaccine and your baby.

  7. Added Gujarati and Tamil translated versions of the leaflet and added the new poster.

  8. Added translated versions.

  9. Updated advice on immunisation for immunosuppressed infants.

  10. Added new revised version of the leaflet.

  11. Updated leaflet with the current immunisation advice.

  12. The advice that babies should have the vaccination if they going to live in countries with high incidences of TB for more than 1 month has changed to more than 3 months.

  13. First published.

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