Please note: During the pandemic, this clinic is closed. Please click here to go to our Riverside website where we are doing rapid antigen COVID testing, where you can book an online travel consult or a COVID Letter of Recovery consultation.
​​Our second Ottawa travel clinic is a branch of the Riverside Travel Medicine Clinic, established in 1990. Staff are members of the International Society of Travel Medicine. All have earned ISTM's Certificate of Travel Health. Three current and now-retired staff have served on Health Canada's expert advisory committee on travel and tropical medicine, known as CATMAT.
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IMMUNIZATIONS
You've come to the right place if you don't like needles. We have the technique and we recommend vaccines only when the need is clear. All vaccines are in stock at the clinic.
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MALARIA
​Some itineraries include malarious areas. There is no malaria vaccine available but anti-mosquito measures and medication can prevent this disease. We discuss options with you.
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AVOIDING ILLNESS
We discuss food and water precautions, travellers' diarrhea and its treatment, dengue and Chikungunya fever, Zika virus, animal bites, altitude sickness and more depending on your itinerary.