International Travel Clinic
For those traveling abroad for leisure, work or study, the Section on Infectious Diseases offers appointments in the International Travel Clinic, an outpatient clinic of North Carolina Baptist Hospital. The Clinic is committed to providing quality health information, medications and vaccinations to ensure safe and healthy travel overseas. The Clinic also offers preventive and curative medicine in the fields of tropical medicine and infectious diseases, high altitude medicine, travel-related obstetrics, occupational health, military and migration medicine.
Clinic Visit Information
The following are the specific preventive health services for the International Traveler:
- Up-to-date country-specific information on health and safety risks
- Prevention and therapy of travelers' diarrhea
- Medication for malaria prevention
- Vaccinations for:
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Tetanus, diphtheria and polio
- Measles, mumps and rubella
- Meningococcal meningitis
- Cholera
- Typhoid fever
- Yellow fever (WHO certificate)
- Japanese encephalitis
- Rabies
- Lists of English-speaking physicians practicing overseas
Traveler's Guide To Avoiding Infectious Diseases
Travelers to other countries may encounter diseases to which they have no natural immunity and which are likely to have a significant impact on their health. Read more in our Traveler's Guide to Infectious Diseases.
Links for the
International Traveler
CDC Travelers' Health
CIA Factbook
Shoreland's Travel Health Online
International Society of Travel Medicine