All new and transfer students are required to submit the Online Medical Clearance Form with documentation of the following prior to the completion of registration.

Required Vaccines

• All Students:
  Two doses of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine (MMR) after your first birthday. (Not required if you were born before 1957.)

• International Students:
  Tuberculin (TB) Skin Test (TST)(formerly known as PPD): New international students arriving from the following countries identified by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as high risk for tuberculosis will be screened upon their arrival in Clemson.

  Albania	Congo, Dem. Rep.	Hong Kong
  Algeria	Costa Rica	Hungary
  Angola	Czech Republic	India
  Argentina	Djibouti	Indonesia
  Armenia	Easter Island	Ivory Coast
  Azerbaijan	Eastern Turkistan	Japan
  Bangladesh	Ecuador	Kazakhstan
  Belarus	Egypt	Kenya
  Belize	El Salvador	Korea, North (DPR)
  Benin	Equatorial Guinea	Kyrgyzstan
  Bolivia	Eritrea	Lesotho
  Bosnia-Herzebovina	Ethiopia	Liberia
  Botswana	Falkland Islands	Libya
  Brazil	French Guiana	Macau
  Bulgaria	Gabon	Macedonia
  Burkina Faso	Gambia	Madagascar
  Burundi	Georgia	Malawi
  Cameroon	Ghana	Mali
  Cape Verde	Guatemala	Mauritania
  Central African Republic	Guinea	Mauritius
  Chad	Guinea-Bissau	Moldovia
  Chile	Guyana	Mongolia
  China	Honduras	Morocco
  Columbia	Sierra Leone	Mozambique
  Congo	Slovakia	Myanmar
  Namibia	Slovenia	Togo
  Nepal	Somalia	Tunisia
  Nicaragua	South Africa	Turkmenistan
  Niger	South Korea	Uganda
  Nigeria	Soviet Union	Ukraine
  Panama	Sudan	Uruguay
  Paraguay	Suriname	Uzbekistan
  Peru	Swaziland	Venezuela
  Poland	Tajikistan	Vietnam
  Reunion	Taiwan	Yugoslavia
  Romania	Tanzania	Zambia
  Russia	Thailand	Zanzibar
  Rwanda	Tibet	Zimbabwe
  Senegal	Timor-Leste
  Seychelles
  Siberia

Students with a prior positive PPD must bring a copy of a chest x-ray report, (translated in English) within the last year. Students who have a prior positive PPD or who are receiving treatment for tuberculosis should bring copies of all treatment records, including medical notes, laboratory reports, and x-rays. The cost of the tuberculin screening is nominal.

Recommended Vaccines

• Tetanus/Diphtheria/Pertussis (recommended)

  Booster: Tdap (preferred) (tetanus toxoid, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis) is recommended with at least five years since the last dose of Td. Administer with meningococcal conjugate (MCV4) vaccine simultaneously if both are indicated.

  Booster: Td (tetanus toxoid and diphtheria) is recommended if Tdap is not available or was administered previously.

  For more information, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

• Meningococcal vaccine (highly recommended)
  Meningococcal Tetravalent conjugate; administer simultaneously with Tdap if possible.

  Any entering student age 25 or under should carefully review the information on the meningococcal vaccine on our website and discuss potential benefits of vaccination with his/her individual healthcare provider.

  For more information, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

• Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (HPV) (strongly recommended)

  A series of 3 vaccines is recommended for all female college students 11 to 26 years old.

  For more information, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

• Varicella (recommended)

  
  

  Either a history of chicken pox, a positive Varicella antibody, or two doses of vaccine given at least one month apart if immunized at the age of 13 or older.

• Hepatitis B (highly recommended)

  A series of 3 vaccines is recommended. May also be combined with Hepatitis A.

  For more information, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

• Hepatitis A (recommended)

  A series of 2 vaccines is recommended for routine use in all adolescents through the age of 18 and in particular for adolescent and adult high-risk groups (i.e., persons traveling to countries where hepatitis A is moderately or highly endemic, men who have sex with men, users of injectable and noninjectable drugs, persons who have clotting-factor disorders, persons working with nonhuman primates, and persons with chronic liver disease). May also be combined with Hepatitis B in a series of 3 vaccines.

  For more information, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

The above vaccines are available at Redfern Health Center for a reasonable fee. For further information you may contact the Director of Administrative Services, Dede Leylek, at (864) 656-7292 or email kleylek@clemson.edu.