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The Travel Medicine & Vaccination Centre provides
the following vaccinations and medical services:
Please refer to our Price List
for details on prices for vaccinations and services.
Travel
Vaccines
The clinics offer a complete range of vaccinations
which are required or recommended for international
travel including:
- 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 - 7 (Prevnar™)
- Pneumococcal - 23 (Pneumovax™)
- Varicella (chickenpox)
- Adacel™ (diphtheria, tetanus &
acellular pertussis)
For further information on these vaccines click
here.
All of our offices are officially designated by Public
Health Agency of Canada and the World
Health Organization as Yellow Fever
Vaccination Centres. Only officially designated
medical facilities are authorized to administer the
yellow fever vaccine which is required for travel to many
countries in South America and Africa. Every traveller
receives an official vaccination certificate.
Travel
Clinic Services
Every client who visits our clinic receives a
personalized travel risk assessment consultation with our
team of experienced physicians and nurses. Included in
the consultation process is:
- Individual risk assessment to determine the
traveller's health risks based on travel itinerary.
- Evaluation of any underlying health problems
(e.g. pregnancy, chronic illness, immunodeficiency).
- Location of travel (rural or urban).
- Style of travel (e.g. first class, adventure).
- Anticipated travel activities (e.g. animal
contact, fresh water exposure, sexual contact).
- Duration of travel (short or long-term).
- Age (child, adult or elderly).
- Current immunization status.
- Status of infectious diseases and other health
risks at destinations during the proposed time of travel.
- Risk-reduction strategies, including
recommended vaccines and behaviour modification to maintain health.
- Strategies for the management of illness while
travelling.
- Provision of routine, recommended and required
vaccines.
- Malaria prophylaxis advice & prescriptions as well as prescriptions for other
medications such as traveller's
diarrhea and altitude sickness.
Occupational
Health Vaccinations and Services
Services offered to corporate clients include:
- Medical examinations to determine fitness to
work.
- Pre-travel and pre-placement examinations for
workers travelling abroad.
- Provision of pre-travel counselling services
and immunizations at the company's premises for groups of 10 or more.
- Travel health and disease prevention seminars
for groups of 10 or more.
- Customized first aid kits and sourcing of other
medical products for individuals and first aid facilities.
- Annual Flu and routine Tetanus vaccination
services at the company's premises.
- Hepatitis A and B vaccination clinics for
employees in high risk occupations (such as food handlers and first aid
attendants).
- Direct invoicing rather than having employees
pre-pay.
- Accommodation of tight schedules wherever
possible.
Flu
Vaccination Program
The Travel Medicine & Vaccination Centre offers a
comprehensive on-site corporate flu vaccination program.
Each fall our team of experienced health care
professionals visit hundreds of companies to administer
flu vaccinations.
We also offer routine tetanus/diphtheria vaccinations
for individuals who have not been vaccinated in the past
10 years.
Reduced rates are available for groups of 20 or more
employees. Please contact the nearest office for current
prices.
Other
Products and Services
The offices offer a wide selection of articles and
information sheets on topics related to travel and health
as well as specific country and region updates on disease
outbreaks and emerging health risks. Information is
obtained through a variety of sources including
publications and bulletins from Health Canada, the US
Centers for Disease Control, the World Health
Organization, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs,
the US State Department and numerous medical journals.
We also sell a selection of travel health products
including:
- First aid kits
- Mosquito nets
- Insect repellents
- Water purifiers and purification tablets
- Books on travel health and medicine
Refer to the Price List for
details on pricing.
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