Travel Health & Immunization

Travel health visits review destination-specific risks, medical history, current medications, immunization status and planned activities. Recommendations and prescriptions are individualized; not every traveller requires the same vaccines or medications.

Travel health services

• Pre-travel consultation and destination/risk assessment.
• Review of routine immunizations and travel-related vaccine needs.
• Administration of selected vaccines when appropriate and available.
• Malaria-prevention assessment and prescription when clinically indicated.
• Prescription treatment or prevention strategies for selected travel-related conditions when clinically appropriate.
• Advice on food and water precautions, insect-bite prevention, altitude, heat, sun exposure and travel health kits.
• Medication review, including planning for adequate supply and documentation for travel where appropriate.
• Post-travel assessment for non-emergency concerns when clinically appropriate.

Plan ahead

Book as early as practical before departure because some vaccine series require multiple doses or time to develop protection. Availability of specific vaccines can vary. The clinic will confirm what can be provided directly and whether a pharmacy, public-health unit or specialized travel clinic is required.

Prescriptions

Travel-related prescriptions are issued only after an appropriate clinical assessment and when medically indicated. Prescription decisions consider destination, duration, itinerary, medical conditions, allergies, pregnancy status where relevant, medication interactions and current Canadian travel-health guidance.

Planning a trip? Read what travel vaccines you need and when to book.

Vaccines and prescriptions travellers often need

• Routine vaccines brought up to date: tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough; measles, mumps and rubella; polio
• Hepatitis A and hepatitis B
• Typhoid
• Rabies (pre-exposure), Japanese encephalitis or meningococcal vaccine for some destinations and trips
• Malaria prevention, travellers’ diarrhea and altitude prescriptions when indicated

Not every traveller needs the same vaccines. Your plan depends on where you are going, for how long, what you will be doing and your health history. Some vaccines are publicly funded in Ontario; we will tell you if you qualify. Yellow fever vaccine is only given at Government of Canada designated centres; if you need it, we will tell you where to go.

When to book

Ideally 6 to 8 weeks before you leave, because some vaccines need more than one dose or time to work. If you are leaving sooner, still book: there is usually something useful we can do.

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