f you have been vaccinated recently, you may need to wait before donating blood. If you have any questions after reviewing the information below, please call our Blood Donor Room at 212-639-8177 or email [email protected].
| Immunizations/Vaccinations | Eligibility for Donation |
|---|---|
| Allergy desensitization | Defer 1 day. |
| Animal Serum Products | 2 weeks after last injection. |
| Anthrax Vaccine | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) | 2 weeks |
| Chicken Pox (See also Varicella zoster vaccine) | 4 weeks |
| Chickenpox Immune Globulin (Varicella-Zoster Immune Globulin) | 12 months |
| Cholera | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Desensitization (Allergy) | Defer 1 day. |
| Diphtheria | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| DT (Diphtheria, Tetanus) | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| DPT or Tdap (Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus) | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Experimental Vaccinations | 12 months. |
| Flu (injection or nasal) | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Gamma Globulin | 120 days if given post-exposure to hepatitis A. evaluate if given for exposure to any other disease. Accept immediately if given prophylactically (e.g,, for travel)and not for exposure. |
| Gardasil (HPV) | Accept immediately. |
| Hepatitis A vaccine | 3 months if given post-exposure. Accept immediately if given prophylactically and not for exposure |
| Hepatitis B vaccine | 14 days if given prophylactically and not for exposure. 3 months if given post-exposure. |
| Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (HBIG) | 3 months. |
| HIV | Defer indefinitely. |
| HPV | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Immune Globulin (ISG) (Immune Serum Globulin) | 120 days if given post-exposure to hepatitis A. Evaluate if given for exposure to any other disease. Accept immediately given prophylactically (e.g.,for travel) and not for exposure. |
| IVIG | Evaluate condition. |
| Japanese Encephalitis | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Lyme Vaccine | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Measles (Rubeola) | 2 weeks. |
| Measles, German (Rubella) | 4 weeks. |
| Meningococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) | 4 weeks. |
| Mpox (formerly monkeypox) | 8 weeks. |
| Mumps | 2 weeks. |
| Parathyphoid | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Pertussis Vaccine | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Plague | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Polio (Oral, Sabin) | 2 weeks after last dose. |
| Polio (by injection, Salk) | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Rabies | Accept if prophylactic injection for occupation. Defer 12 months if bite sustained. |
| Rh Immune Globulin (RhoGAM) | Defer for 6 weeks after pregnancy, miscarriage or abortion. If in association with Rh incompatibly transfusion defer 12 months. |
| RSV (Arexvy and Abrysvo) | Accept immediately. |
| Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Rubella (German Measles) | 4 weeks after last injection. |
| Rubeola (Measles) | Defer 2 weeks after last injections, unless part of MMR, then four week wait. |
| Shingles (Zostavax) | 4 weeks |
| Smallpox without complications | Defer for 8 weeks. |
| Smallpox with complications | Defer for 8 weeks after onset of symptoms or 14 days after symptoms resolve, whichever is longer. Complications include: a rash resembling blisters, necrosis (tissue death) at the vaccination site, inflammation of the brain, infection of the cornea, localized or systemic skin reaction in someone with eczema or other chronic skin condition |
| Tetanus Toxoid | Accept immediately if symptom free. If for human bite, defer for 12 months. See Medical Conditions guidelines if for animal bite. |
| Tetanus & Diphtheria Toxoids | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Twin RX (combined Hepatitis A and B vaccines) | 14 days if given prophylactically 12 months if given post exposure |
| Typhoid | Accept immediately if injectable, defer 2 weeks if oral |
| Typhus, Paratyphoid | Accept immediately if feeling well and healthy. |
| Varicella-Zoster (Chicken Pox) | 4 weeks after last injection. |
| Varicella-Zoster Immune Globulin | 2 months after last injection. |
| Yellow Fever | 2 weeks after last injection. |
| Zostavax (shingles) | 4 weeks after last injection. |