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All our London travel clinics are registered yellow fever centres and have anti-malarials on site. We provide the latest up to date destination specific travel health advice

With 40+ travel clinics across London, CityDoc is your local leading provider of travel vaccines.

Travel Safe and prepare for your trip 4-6 weeks in advance when possible

For last minute travellers, we offer Same Day appointments. with our travel health experts who will carry out a full risk assessment. With our competitive and clear pricing structure plus unmatched coverage with clinics across Central and Greater London. CityDoc is your first choice trusted provider.

The Essential Travel Vaccinations

Required Travel Vaccines

Certain countries have mandatory vaccination requirements for entry, to protect their citizens from the importing or spreading of certain diseases.

Those countries that require this are either countries where the disease is already present or where they have the potential to occur. For example India, where they have the specific species of mosquito which act as hosts for the yellow fever virus but don’t have any actual cases of yellow fever.  Proof is in the form of an international vaccination certificate.

Commonly Recommended Travel Vaccinations

We will undertake an initial travel health risk assessment, to determine the most appropriate vaccine recommendations for your trip.  This assessment will take account of various factors including age, type of holiday, activities , duration,  past medical history, current medication, previous reactions to vaccines and future travel plans.

Our advice will include mention of those vaccines strongly recommended for a particular trip and others to consider based on your general lifetime risk of travel.

Commonly recommended jabs include:

Hepatitis A

An viral illness which infects the liver. This is the most commonly recommended vaccination for travel, as it affects many countries across the World. The majority of infected individuals make complete recoveries. Travellers are typically infected when eat contaminated food/water.

Typhoid

Typhoid fever  is a significant bacterial disease transmitted when travellers ingest contaminated food/drinks. It is most commonly found in developing world countries with poor sanitation.

Diphtheria/Tetanus/polio

Diphtheria  is a bacterial disease which affects the respiratory system. It is transmitted from person-person usually through coughing/sneezing. It is a particular issue in developing countries such as sub-Saharan Africa. In severe forms, death can occur from respiratory failure.

Tetanus is a serious infection caused by the bacterium Clostridium tetani’s spores, which are found in soil dust and animal faeces. These spores enter the body through cuts and wounds causing devastating harm to the nervous system.  Death can occur when the nervous supply to the muscles concerned with the respiratory system are affected. Tetanus is found  worldwide but certain countries are considered more high risk.

Polio is a viral illness which affects the spinal cord and central nervous system of infected individuals. Spread because of poor sanitation from person-person. The virus itself is swallowed and transmitted to the blood stream. From the blood stream it gains access to the nervous system. Paralysis the most severe complication occurs in a small minority of those affected and many will improve greatly but some never recover.

Sometimes Recommended Vaccines

Hepatitis B

Is a viral illness which infects the liver and can result in cirrhosis and liver failure for a minority of those infected. It is recognized as the leading cause of liver cancer worldwide and is completely preventable through vaccination.The condition is spread via blood and sexual intercourse. It is a classed  sexually transmitted infection. It can be additionally transmitted vertically from a mother to child.

Rabies

Rabies is a very serious viral infection which carries a 100 % mortality rate once symptoms have developed.  The virus is most typically contracted from a bite from an infected animal. The virus being found within the animal’s saliva (most commonly a dog) and travels readily to spinal cord and brain where is causes a severe inflammatory process. In some parts of the world, other animals such as bats, cats and monkeys can transmit the disease. The most commonly affected regions of the World are Asia, Africa and South America.