✈️ Travel Smart. Stay Protected.
At Chinook Guardian Pharmacy, we help you travel with confidence. Whether you’re heading to Asia, South America, or anywhere in between, our travel clinic offers expert guidance, essential vaccines, and personalized advice to keep you safe abroad.
🦠 Common Travel Diseases & How to Prevent Them
Japanese Encephalitis
- Viral infection affecting brain lining.
- Transmitted through mosquito bites, mostly in Asia.
- Symptoms: fever, severe headache, neck stiffness, seizures, come and death.
- Vaccine: 2 doses separated by 7 or 28 days.
- Prevention: Mosquito bites avoidance and vaccination.
MALARIA
Transmitted through mosquito bites
- Symptoms include fever, muscle aches, cough, headache, and chills.
No vaccine available, but pills taken on daily basis during exposure is available.
Prevention: take malaria pills and avoid mosquito bites.
YELLOW FEVER
- Viral infection transmitted through mosquito bites.
- Symptoms include fever, headache, nausea and general weakness. Severe symptoms include Jaundice, bleeding, shock and could cause death.
- Vaccine: 1 injection subcutaneously is effective for life.
TYPHOID
- Bacterial infection transmitted through food or water contaminated with sewage.
- Symptoms include high fever, nausea, abdominal pain and rash.
- Complication could happen if not treated.
- Prevention: avoid contaminated food and water.
- Vaccine: either one injection or 4 capsules taken over a week
TRAVELLER'S DIARRHEA
- Most common infection among travellers. Caused by different kinds of bacteria, viruses or protozoa.
- Prevention is through eating clean food and drinking bottled water.
- Symptoms: severe watery diarrhea, fever, abdominal pain.
- Vaccine: (Dukoral) is a common vaccine that is taken in 2 doses before travel.
HEPATITIS B
- Viral infection affecting the liver.
- Transmitted through blood and body fluids.
- Symptoms: yellowing of skin and eyes, nausea, weakness.
- Vaccine: 3 doses at 0,1 and 6 months.
RABIES
- Viral infection transmitted through the saliva of infected mammals. Most cases of rabies are caused by dogs, cats and bats.
- symptoms: fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and numbness or tingling and the site of the bite or scratch. If untreated, rabies develops into a more serious disease where hallucinations, hyperactivity, seizures, or paralysis can occur. After symptoms develop, treatment will not help and death will occur.
- Prevention is through avoid any contact with any mammals while away.
- Vaccine: three shots at 0,7 and 21-28 days before travel.
