The Travel Medicine & Vaccination Centre is your complete one-stop travel clinic for all your international medical health needs.
Prevnar 13 is now licensed for adults over 50 and available for purchase at TMVC. Wondering if this vaccine is for you? Here are some commonly asked questions and answers: What is the PCV 13 vaccine? The PCV 13 vaccine is a vaccine that protects against 13 types of pneumococcal bacteria which cause invasive pneumococcal… |
The clinics offer a complete range of vaccinations which are required or recommended for international travel including: Shingles Vaccine (Zostavax™) Yellow Fever Tetanus/Diphtheria Polio Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis A/B (Twinrix™) Typhoid (oral or injectable) Travellers Diarrhea/Cholera (Dukoral™) Meningococcal Meningitis (quadravalent & conjugate C) Japanese B Encephalitis Tick-borne Encephalitis Rabies Influenza (Flu) Measles/Mumps/Rubella Pneumococcal –… |
Latest news from the travel vaccination world:
Both the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and PHAC recently issued alerts to advise travellers to the Summer Olympic Games in London about the risk of contracting measles from fellow travellers. There has been a rise of measles cases in recent years with outbreaks in many areas of the world including Europe and North America. At… |
Prevnar 13 is now licensed for adults over 50 and available for purchase at TMVC. Wondering if this vaccine is for you? Here are some commonly asked questions and answers: What is the PCV 13 vaccine? The PCV 13 vaccine is a vaccine that protects against 13 types of pneumococcal bacteria which cause invasive pneumococcal… |
On the backdrop of the recent Rabies case in a traveller returning from the Dominican Republic, we like to remind travelers to inform themselves about risk factors, vaccinations and treatment. Rabies is an acute viral disease that attacks the brain and the nervous system usually transmitted by the bite (saliva) of an infected mammal. Untreated,… |
