What is a Travel Clinic?
A travel clinic is a clinic where travel medicine is dispensed. Travel Medicine has become an important and increasingly prominent subspecialty in medicine in the past 10 to 15 years. It entails much more than administering vaccines: • Individualized risk assessment (health history of the individual, destination, planned activities and length of stay) • Risk management (providing immunizations and recommending medication for conditions the traveler may encounter in their destination (malaria, traveler’s diarrhea, altitude, sickness, etc). TOP Q) Where is the travel clinic in my area? A) To locate the travel clinic nearest to you visit our Travel Clinic Locator. TOP Q) Can’t I just visit my family doctor? Why is the travel doctor different? A) If you are a low risk traveler (ie; traveling for business to a developed country and staying in a five-star resort) then your family doctor can suggest some minor precautions to ensure you have a safe and healthy trip. However, if you are plannin
Before you pack your bags to visit foreign shores you may want to pick up the phone and call a nearby travel clinic. Particularly if you are traveling to areas where there are known risks of certain diseases, it’s important to make sure that you do not boost your risk of contracting these illnesses. Moreover you may be required by law to get some vaccinations before vacationing in various parts of the world. A travel clinic essentially functions as a one-stop shop for obtaining needed vaccinations and disease information about the areas to which you plan to travel. They offer pre-travel vaccinations, special advice for people with illnesses or conditions like pregnancy, and post-travel counsel if you picked up any nasty bugs on a trip. Unlike visiting your local doctor, a travel clinic may be a better choice for many because they must keep abreast of all current vaccination information for travel to other parts of the world. However if you have a current health condition, it’s also imp
