The Travel Clinic is run by specialists from the Department of Infectious Disease.
Our team of doctors and nurses offer comprehensive pre-travel advice and country specific recommendations prior to your trip.
Clinical Services
The services we offer in the clinic include:
- Country specific health advice
- Full range of travel vaccines
- Latest international travel health news based on international disease outbreak
- Anti Malarial prophylaxis and prevention advice
- Altitude sickness advice and prevention
- Health screening and vaccination for overseas study / attachment requirement
- Post travel consultation and treatment including post rabies exposure prophylaxis, malaria treatment, traveler’s diarrhoea and other infections
- Occupational health vaccinations : vaccinations for healthcare worker, laboratory workers and others
- Non travel related eg: zoster vaccine consult and TB screening
It is advisable to visit the Travel Clinic 4-6 weeks before travelling.
Travel Health Information
Vaccines available:
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis A+B
- Typhoid
- Cholera
- Japanese encephalitis
- Meningococcal
- Influenza
- Pneumococcal
- Measles, Mumps and Rubella
- Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis
- Tetanus
- Polio
- Rabies
- Yellow fever
- Varicella (Chicken pox)
- Shingles
We are a designated Yellow Fever Centre.
Areas with risk of Yellow Risk Fever Transmission in South America
Areas with Risk of Yellow Fever Virus Transmission in Africa.
Reference:
http://www.cdc.gov/yellowfever/maps/index.html
Malaria prophylaxis available:
- Doxycycline
- Malarone
- Mefloquine
Blood tests available:
- Hepatitis A IgG antibody
- Hepatitis B core total antibody
- Hepatitis B surface antibody
- Hepatitis C antibody screen
- Measles IgG
- Mumps IgG
- Rubella IgG
- Varicella- zoster virus IgG
- HIV Screen
- Mantoux test
- TB Quantiferon
- T-Spot TB
