Travel Advice

Whether you’re travelling for business or pleasure, some simple precautions can make your trip a safe one. See your doctor, travel or public health clinic four to six weeks before departure to find out which vaccines are considered important for your destination and for general pretravel medical advice.

Click here to link with CDC’s geographical health recommendations to check what you may need. http://www.cdc.gov/travel/destinat.htm

Pre Reading Week Clinic’s are held in the SHDC in January and February for those going to the Caribbean and Cuba.

To book an appointment at Health Services call ext 3146 or print out a travel form and bring it to Health Services.

Vaccinations for international travel are categorized as:

Routine: to upgrade childhood immunizations such as diphtheria-tetanus, polio, and measles-mumps-rubella.

Required: to be allowed entry into certain countries and to cross international borders (Yellow Fever occurs in tropical parts of Africa and South America. This must be done through Community Health Clinic)

Recommended: to stay as healthy as possible in countries where certain diseases are more common than they are in Canada. Examples are hepatitis A, typhoid and malaria.

Regulations and recommendations for vaccination can change frequently. While only one vaccination may be listed as "required" often the "recommended" ones are more important for staying healthy.

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