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Travel and immunization clinic at East Guelph Medical Clinic

Travel & Immunization Clinic

Vaccinated before you board.

Destination-specific vaccines, malaria prophylaxis and pre-departure advice from a physician who reads your chart. Book at least six weeks before you fly.

Where are you going?

Pick a region. We will tell you what usually comes up.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Book Eight weeks or more ahead

Usually on the plan

  • Yellow fever, with the certificate many borders ask for
  • Typhoid and hepatitis A
  • Meningococcal ACWY for the meningitis belt
  • Rabies for long or rural stays

Malaria

Prophylaxis for almost every region, chosen around your other medications.

Paperwork

Yellow fever certification is a condition of entry in a number of countries. It has to be given at least ten days before you arrive.

This is what usually comes up for the region, not your plan. The plan is written at the consultation, against your chart, your itinerary and what you have already had.

When to book

Six weeks is the number that matters.

Some vaccines need a second dose, and most need time to work. Leaving it late does not mean we cannot help, it means fewer options.

Eight weeks or more before you flyThe comfortable window. Every vaccine on the schedule is available, including the ones that need a second or third dose.Ideal
Six to eight weeksStill enough time for almost everything, including a two-dose course and yellow fever certification.Book now
Two to six weeksMost single-dose vaccines still work. We prioritise by destination risk and start what can be started.Worth doing
Less than two weeksCome anyway. Malaria tablets, traveller’s diarrhea treatment and a plan for what to do if you fall ill still make a real difference.Not too late
After you get backPost-travel assessment for fever, persistent diarrhea, rashes or anything that started while you were away.Same week

The consultation

One appointment, planned around your itinerary.

Your itinerary

Countries, regions within them, rural or urban, the season, and how long you are away. Risk changes with all of it.

Your health

Existing conditions, current medications, allergies and pregnancy. We plan around your chart rather than a generic schedule.

Your vaccine history

What you have already had, and what has lapsed. Bring any record you have, including one from another country.

What you get

A written plan, the vaccines given that day, prescriptions to fill, and certificates where a country requires one.

What the clinic provides

Everything a pre-departure visit should cover.

Vaccines and immunization

Travel vaccinations on the destination schedule, routine catch-up doses, and yellow fever certification for the countries that demand proof of it.

Malaria and medications

Malaria prophylaxis chosen for the region and for your other medications, plus altitude sickness and motion sickness prescriptions where they help.

Traveller’s diarrhea

A standby course to carry with you, and clear written instructions on when to start it and when to seek help instead.

Certificates and clearance

Medical clearance letters for airlines and insurers, travel health certificates, and documentation for carrying prescription medication across borders.

Travel health education

Food and water precautions, insect bite avoidance, sun and heat, and the practical advice that prevents most travel illness.

Emergency and post-travel care

What to do if you fall ill abroad, and an assessment when you get home if something did not settle.

Cost

Travel medicine is not covered by OHIP.

The consultation and the vaccines are both billed to you. Reception quotes the consultation fee and the vaccine cost for your destination before you book, and many workplace plans reimburse both.

Pre-travel consultationPhysician time to assess your itinerary and health, and to write the plan. Per person.$60
VaccinesVaccine cost plus an administration fee of $15 to $25, priced per destination.Quoted
PrescriptionsMalaria tablets and standby medication are filled at your pharmacy and priced there, not here.At pharmacy
Receipts for your planItemised every time, with what an insurer needs to process the claim.Always

Bring these to the appointment

  • Your health card, even though the visit is not covered by OHIP
  • Your full itinerary, including stopovers and rural stays
  • Any immunization record you have, from any country
  • A list of your current medications and doses
  • Your travel insurance details, if you already have a policy
  • Details of any condition that affects vaccination, including pregnancy

Travelling with the whole family

Children need their own assessment, not a smaller version of yours. Doses, timing and which vaccines are appropriate all change with age, so book everyone into the same visit and we will work through the group together.

Translation support is available in more than fifty languages. Ask for it when you book and an interpreter is arranged for the appointment.

Before you fly

Tell us where you are going.

Email your destination and departure date and reception will come back with the consultation fee, the vaccines you need and the first appointment that fits.