Information on Vaccines and Infections
Please find below leaflets and websites that can teach you more about vaccines and infections.
Recommended Vaccines During Pregnancy
The following links will open the HSE website on recommended vaccines during pregnancy:
- Flu Vaccine for Pregnant Women
- Whooping Cough (Pertussis) Vaccine for Pregnant Women
- Pregnancy, breastfeeding and fertility: COVID-19 vaccination
- After pregnancy: Rubella and Pregnancy (if not immune or to complete MMR vaccination)
Information Leaflets
A wide range of information leaflets and articles on infection control can be read or downloaded here:
- Chickenpox and Pregnancy
- Clostridium difficile
- COVID-19 and Pregnancy
- Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE)
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
- ESBL Information Leaflet
- Genital herpes (HSV)
- Genital warts (HPV)
- Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in Pregnancy
- Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
- Hand Hygiene Advice
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- HIV and AIDS
- Contacts of Patients with Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infection
- Patients with Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infection
- Information on Listeria in Pregnancy
- Measles Information Leaflet
- MRSA
- Neonatal Multi Drug Resistant Organism (MDRO)
- Mumps
- Negative Pressure Dressing
- Neonatal Meningitis
- Neonatal MRSA
- Norovirus (Winter Vomiting Virus)
- Slapped Cheek (Parvovirus) Leaflet
- STIs – Your Guide to Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Toxoplasmosis
- VRE (vancomycin resistant enterococci)
- Wound Care
- Zika Virus
Additional Links
- World Health Organisation www.who.int
- Health Protection Surveillance www.hpsc.ie
- Remembering Baby Eibhlin www.rememberingeibhlin.org
Further Information on Zika virus:
- HSE’s Facsheet on Zika Virus and Pregnancy
- CDC’s Recommendations for Travelers and People Living Abroad
For general information on Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) go to HSE’s sexualwellbeing.ie