East Asia covers a vast area, including China, Japan and Korea. A trip to East Asia may involve spending time in a high-tech city like Singapore or Hong Kong, or going into remote areas in the Himalayas and Mongolia. If you’re wondering how best to protect your health during your travels in East Asia, we can help.
How do I decide which vaccines I need for a trip to East Asia?
To find out which vaccines to have for vacationing or for business travel in East Asia, make a travel health appointment at one of our clinics.
When recommending vaccines and giving travel health advice, our advisers draw on several sources of information that are constantly being updated to reflect the real-world situation. So, our advice will be different for every trip and every traveller. You may get different advice, too, depending on what activities you have planned. The health risk profile of a business trip to a city in China is very different to that of a trekking expedition to a remote mountainous area.
Travellers who are older, or vulnerable for health reasons, will also need tailored advice to ensure they are well protected on their trip to East Asia. After your travel health appointment, you may wish to consult your usual healthcare provider about the potential effects of altitude, heat or cold on your health condition.
Which vaccines are available for a trip to East Asia?
Our clinics have good stocks of the most common vaccines needed by travellers and those that are part of the Canadian vaccine schedule. The vaccines we can offer include:
- chicken pox vaccine
- cholera vaccine
- hepatitis A vaccine
- hepatitis B vaccine
- Japanese encephalitis vaccine
- MMR vaccine
- meningococcal meningitis vaccine and certificate
- tetanus vaccine
- rabies vaccine
- yellow fever vaccine and certificate
We can also provide malaria prophylaxis, supported by advice to help you work out when to start and stop taking your tablets.
Our pricing is competitive, and you can rely on Canadian Travel Clinics to give you good value for money. To learn more about the costs of travel vaccines, see the price pages for your province.
Should I get vaccinated against Japanese encephalitis when visiting East Asia?
It’s best to get tailored advice when deciding whether to get the Japanese encephalitis vaccine. Whether or not you are likely to be exposed to this mosquito-borne virus depends on where you are going, what time of year and which activities you’ll be doing.
The Government of Canada has more information about Japanese encephalitis.
Do I need a yellow fever certificate for a trip to East Asia?
Countries may change their requirement for a yellow fever certificate at short notice. So, it’s best to check with a reliable source to find out if you need a yellow fever certificate for your vacation. You may get turned away at the border if you can’t produce a certificate when you arrive at your destination.
Your travel health adviser will have up-to-date information about the yellow fever certificate requirements at your destination. You can also get information from your airline or your travel agent, and from the government of the country you’re visiting.
We offer longer appointments for more complex trips
If you’re going away for longer than three weeks, or if you have a multi-destination trip planned, we suggest making a double appointment. This will give the adviser time to do a thorough assessment of all the locations you are visiting and all the activities you have planned.
The first step to protecting your health while travelling in East Asia
Six to eight weeks before you travel, make an appointment at a health clinic that specializes in travel health – for example, one of our Toronto travel health centres.