Travel Clinics
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Travel Clinics and a Travel History to Beat All Travel Histories
Confession: I have mixed feelings about travel clinics. On the one hand, they provide a useful service to people who might be unaware of the dangers of the exotic places they plan to visit. It’s a place for sensible counseling: Don’t eat street food! Don’t play with the stray dogs! Don’t swim in the Omo River!
Travel clinics offer a cornucopia of vaccines — yellow fever, typhoid, hepatitis A, rabies. A good travel doctor or nurse — optimally an experienced and enthusiastic traveler themselves — really knows the risk of Japanese encephalitis on your 3-week trip to Myanmar. They also have wise advice about malaria prophylaxis and other treatments to take along, just in case.
Resources
Online Clinic Directory
The Global Clinic Directory is a database of ISTM members and their Travel Clinics around the world.
A week in the life of a travel clinic
International travel has increased enormously in recent years. With the greater movement of people have come increased encounters with a wide variety of diseases: malaria, dengue, cholera, typhoid fever, Ebola virus, and many more. The need for greater scope, consistency, and knowledgeability in pretravel health care to meet these challenges has been met by the emergence of the discipline of travel medicine.
Catching the Sights, Not the Bugs
If you’re going to a developing country, visit a travel clinic four to eight weeks before you travel to get any immunizations you may need.
Everything You Need to Know About Travel Clinics
Travel clinics can help you know health risks when traveling abroad and how to stay medically fit so you can spend your time adventuring rather than sick in bed.
Taking the Bite Out of Travel
Travel-medicine specialists estimate that less than half of travelers to high-risk regions seek pre-travel care. They say physicians who aren't expert in the latest travel-health issues may fail to suggest preventive measures like malaria pills and vaccines.
The International Traveler's Guide to Avoiding Infections
The last thing a world traveler wants is to get sick. To stay healthy, travelers need to protect themselves from viruses, bacteria, and parasites, including many they have seldom, if ever, encountered. With precise, simple explanations, this indispensable guide helps international travelers avoid common―and uncommon―infections wherever they go.
Travel Smart: Don’t leave travel vaccines to the last minute
Some shots involve a series over several months and the kind travellers need can vary depending on age, pre-existing medical conditions, their destination and activities while abroad.
What to Expect At a Travel Clinic
Travel medicine clinics began to appear in the early 1980's to help people get ready at one center for a trip to the developing world or any place in the tropics, instead of dashing around to doctors and the public health department.
Travel Clinics and a Travel History to Beat All Travel Histories
Confession: I have mixed feelings about travel clinics. On the one hand, they provide a useful service to people who might be unaware of the dangers of the exotic places they plan to visit. It’s a place for sensible counseling:
5 Reasons To Visit a Travel Medicine Clinic Before Going Abroad
Regardless of where your visit to an exotic destination may be, it’s important that you are able to enjoy the time away. While a trip to any exotic locale is sure to be memorable, it also comes with health risks. A visit to a travel medicine clinic can help address these risks.
Passport Health
Passport Health is the largest and leading provider of travel medicine and immunization services in North America. With 270+ travel clinic locations, a commitment to first-class medical care, and rigorously trained medical staff, Passport Health sets the immunization industry standard. Our deep vaccine inventory and vast clinic network provides clients with what they need, when they need it. We strive to be all travelers’ one-stop-shop for all their vaccination, travel document and travel supply needs.
Travel Clinics of America
We are a nationwide network of primary care physicians trained in travel vaccinations, travel health, and travel safety. TCA doctors consider your individual medical history, health issues and specific itinerary. We believe, strongly, that a physician is best qualified to advise you on your travel medicine needs.
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