Salt Lake Valley Health Department International Travel Clinic 2001 South State Street S2400 Salt Lake City, Utah 84190 801-468-2813.

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Salt Lake Valley Health Department

International

Travel Clinic

2001 South State Street S2400

Salt Lake City, Utah 84190801-468-2813

Typical Visit(by appointment only)

45 Minute Visit: 1-2 people going to 1 country

Specific vaccine recommendations Food and Water precautions Insect Borne diseases Other precautions-Lepto, Schisto & other

parasites Prescriptions-High altitude, Motion

sickness, Malaria, Diarrhea treatment, Yeast infection

Repellants-types and appropriate usage Emergency Evacuation/Medical Insurance

Infectious DiseasesPreventable With Vaccines

Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Typhoid Fever Yellow Fever Meningococcal Measles Polio Japanese Encephalitis Rabies

Illnesses NOT Preventable with vaccines

Malaria Traveler’s Diarrhea Altitude Sickness Leptospirosis Leishmaniasis Dengue Fever Avian Influenza Chikungunya Trypanosomiasis Schistosomiasis Tuberculosis

Up-to-Date Information

Shoreland’s Travax Software Updated Continually

Centers For Disease Control World Health Organization US Dept. of State Detailed Yellow Fever and Malaria Maps Urgent updates via e-mail

Culture Grams

Tools & Education MicroMedex

Promed E-Mail

Members of The International Society of Travel Medicine

Collaboration with University of Utah Infectious Disease Physicians

Nurses have a “Certificate in Travel Health” from ISTM- Competency exam for doctors and nurses who provide travel info

Meet Weekly with Infectious Disease Doctors

Meet Monthly with ID doctors and other travel medicine professionals

Types of Travelers

Business Vacationers Humanitarian Groups Visiting Friends/Relatives Adoption Missionaries

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