Travel Medicine
Consults and Vaccines, including Yellow Fever vaccine
Planning a trip abroad? Whether it’s a vacation, cruise, backpacking adventure, mission work, or visiting family overseas, Horizon Family Medicine helps you protect your trip and protect your health.
Our certified travel clinic provides personalized consultations, vaccines, prescriptions, and official documentation to ensure you’re prepared for every destination.
Why Choose a Travel Health Clinic?
Routine check-ups don’t cover travel-specific risks. Even “just a resort” trip can expose you to local food, water, insects, and environmental challenges. A dedicated travel consultation ensures you’re ready for:
- Food & water illnesses: traveller’s diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid
- Mosquito-borne diseases: malaria, dengue, yellow fever, Zika, Japanese encephalitis
- Animal bites & scratches: rabies risk
- Environmental risks: heat and sun exposure, altitude sickness, jet lag, blood clots on long flights
Pricing for Travel Medicine Consultations:
- Individual: $80
- Complex Multi-Country: $95
- Couple: $130
- Family (up to four): $180
- Additional child: $35 each
Travel medicine consultations are an uninsured, patient pay service and are not covered by Alberta Health.
Ideally, book 4–6 weeks before travel. Last-minute travellers are welcome — we’ll focus on your highest risks and use accelerated vaccine schedules when possible.
Pre-Travel Consultation Services
Vaccinations:
- Routine (tetanus, polio, MMR, etc.) and travel-specific (hepatitis A/B, typhoid, yellow fever, rabies, Japanese encephalitis, cholera, and more)
Malaria & travel prescriptions:
- Region-specific prevention, stand-by treatment for traveller’s diarrhea, altitude/motion sickness, jet lag options
Tuberculosis (TB) skin testing:
- For healthcare workers, long-term travellers, or those with known risks
- Special traveller care: Infants, children, families, pregnant travellers, seniors, immunocompromised individuals, expatriates, students, humanitarian workers
Documentation:
- Certified International Certificate of Vaccination (“Yellow Card”)
What to Expect at Your Appointment:
A review of your trip & health
- Destinations, itinerary, length of stay
- Urban vs. rural travel, higher-risk activities
- Medical history, medications, allergies, pregnancy, immune status
A personalized travel plan
- Required vs. recommended vaccines
- Malaria prevention & prescriptions
- Practical advice on food safety, insect bite prevention, sun & heat safety, flight health, and packing a travel kit
Travel medicine services are not fully covered by Provincial health insurance. Vaccine costs vary by product and some may be covered by private insurance or workplace benefits and others may not.
Who Should See Us?
- Babies, children, teens
- Pregnant travellers or those planning pregnancy
- People with chronic conditions or weakened immune systems
- Seniors
- Long-stay, backpacking, or remote travellers
- Students, missionaries, humanitarian workers
- Anyone visiting friends or relatives abroad
What to Bring
- Alberta Health Card
- Private health insurance information
- Immunization records
- Medication/allergy list
- Itinerary (countries, dates, activities)
Pricing for Travel Medicine Consultations:
- Individual: $80
- Complex Multi-Country: $95
- Couple: $130
- Family (up to four): $180
- Additional child: $35 each
