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Protect yourself and your family when travelling.
If you are planning a trip out of the country, contact the Travel Clinic as soon as possible to make sure you have enough time to get the vaccines you need.
NOTE: For the months of June, July and August the Travel Clinic is held every 2 weeks. Please book at least 2 months in advance.
Reports of Gastrointestinal Illness from Persons Returing From Cuba
- The Health Unit has received several reports regarding cases of gastrointestinal illness from persons returning from Cuba.
- This illness could cause nausea, vomitting, diarrhea and occasionally fever.
- If you have these symptoms after returning from a warm weather vacation (e.g. Mexico, Dominican Republic, cruise) and they do not go away, please see your health care provider right away and let them know about your travel history.
- For more information, contact the Health Unit at 625-8318 or 1-888-294-6630, ext. 8318.
- Additional information from the Public Health Agency of Canada is available by clicking here.
Other important sources of information before you travel:
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Travel Health Notices on the Public Health Agency of Canada's website
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Travel Reports & Warnings on the Foreign Affairs website
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Important travel information on the Foreign Affairs website |
Learn more by clicking on one of the links below:
Please call 625-5903 or 1-888-294-6630, ext. 5903.
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The Health Unit holds a Travel Clinic each Thursday from 9:00-11:30 a.m at 999 Balmoral Street. You must make an appointment.
During the months of June, July and August the clinics are held every two weeks on the Thursday morning.
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There are costs associated with each vaccine as well as a doctor’s consultation fee. Click here for the most current list of vaccine fees.
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If you are travelling to resorts in Cuba, Mexico or the Caribbean, you may visit our Wednesday Walk-In Immunization Clinic between 1:30 to 6:00 pm at 999 Balmoral Street. Service is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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All visitors now need proof of health insurance in order to enter Cuba. As of May 1st, 2010, those who do not have proof may be required to purchase health insurance from a Cuban insurance company when they arrive.
For more information, click here and go to Section 4 on the page.
Some recommendations before you depart on your trip:
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Update your tetanus-diptheria immunization and get the recommended hepatitis A and/or hepatitis B vaccine. These vaccinations are available at our Wednesday Immunization Clinic held from 1:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at 999 Balmoral Street. No appointment is necessary as clients are served on a first-come, first-served basis.
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The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) reminds travellers that malaria transmission occurs in over 100 tropical and subtropical countries around the world.
If travelling to any of these areas, you may be at risk.
- Most of sub-Saharan Africa and limited areas in Northern Africa (most malaria cases and deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa).
- Large areas of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and some parts of East Asia.
- Areas in South and Central America as well as the Caribbean, including parts of Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
- Limited areas in the Middle East, as well as limited parts of Europe.
- Papua New Guinea and in parts of other small islands in the Oceania region.
Risk can change based on season (rainy/dry), location (rural/urban), and altitude.
Click here for a copy of a Global Update on Malaria from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Read more about the countries where malaria is a concern. Please bring this information to your doctor.
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Dengue fever is spread to humans by mosquitoes. It is the most common cause of fever for those travelling back from the Carribean, Central America and South Central Asia.
No vaccine is available, so it is important to minimize the risk by practicing protective measures to avoid insect bites and to use mosquito repellent with DEET. Click here for more information about preventing bites.
Click here for a copy of the Global Update on Dengue Fever from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
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For Travel Health Advisories from the Public Health Agency of Canada, click here.
For a Travelling Outside Canada Fact Sheet from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, click here.
For information that is important to Canadians going abroad, visit the Foreign Affairs website by clicking here.
For more information about appropriate immunization for the destination that you are travelling, please visit the Centre for Disease Control site by clicking here.
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