Services
Boston Medical Center’s Travel Clinic offers regional expertise in travel medicine to:
- Latin America
- Caribbean
- Africa
- Middle East
- Asia
Additionally, we offer the following services:
Itinerary-specific pre-travel consultation, immunization, and prescriptions for children and adults including yellow fever immunization:
- Yellow fever vaccine
- Hepatitis A, typhoid, meningococcal, and Japanese encephalitis vaccines
- All other recommended vaccines (e.g. tetanus, measles/mumps/rubella, polio, hepatitis B, and others)
- Advice on the prevention of disease transmitted by mosquitoes such as dengue fever and Japanese B encephalitis
- Advice on malaria prevention — where, when and how
- Advice on the prevention and treatment of traveler’s diarrhea
- Advice on special issues such as medical care abroad, altitude sickness and jet lag
- Prescriptions for drugs for malaria prevention, self-treatment of traveler's diarrhea, and prevention of altitude sickness
- Information regarding travel with children or during pregnancy
- Travel health advice for individuals with chronic diseases including immunosuppressive disorders
- Education on ways to avoid rare tropical diseases such as schistosomiasis, filariasis, leishmaniasis and rabies
Full pre-travel medical evaluations for individuals and corporate employees including the following:
- Complete history and physicals
- Blood chemistries including tests of kidney and liver function
- Complete blood counts and blood typing
- Skin tests for tuberculosis
- Other tests as clinically indicated including EKGs, X-rays, cardiac stress testing, mammograms, Pap smears and HIV testing
Expertise in diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases acquired abroad
Clinical parasitology laboratory
Electronic patient medical data base
Special sessions for groups of travelers (students, volunteers and missionaries)
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