Travel Clinic Edmonton Downtown

Find our travel and covid clinic in Edmonton Downtown conveniently located on Edmonton’s famous Jasper Avenue.

Our Downtown Edmonton location is convenient for several neighbourhoods:

• Boyle Street
• Oliver
• Queen Mary Park

What services does Canadian Travel Clinics offer in Edmonton?

Canadian Travel Clinics is delighted to offer the following services at its Edmonton branch:

• vaccinations and testing for covid-19, including travel services
• travel health consultations and immunisations
• anti-malarials

Covid vaccination and testing service in Edmonton

We can provide free doses of the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine to adults and children over five at our Edmonton Downtown branch.

Do you need to get tested for covid for travel, work or because you are visiting a vulnerable person? It’s so easy to make a quick covid test appointment with Canadian Travel Clinics.

Are you entitled to free covid vaccinations?

Most Canadians over the age of five are entitled to free covid vaccinations. Just show your Alberta Health Care card and we can administer the dose of covid vaccine that will protect you and your loved ones.

We’ve got plenty of Pfizer covid-19 vaccine in stock: make your appointment right now.

You can get vaccinated against covid at no cost, even if you’re doing it because you are traveling.

Remember: you need your Alberta Health Care to get your covid vaccine dose or booster.

Which covid vaccines do you provide?

We have excellent stocks of the Pfizer covid vaccine.

If I have been vaccinated with a vaccine other than the Pfizer covid vaccine, can you give me a booster dose?

As per Health Alberta guidance, the Pfizer and the Moderna covid-19 vaccines are interchangeable. So you can get boosted with Pfizer after an initial dose of Moderna.

Covid testing service for travelers

For travel or work or just peace of mind you may need to get tested for covid-19. At our travel health centre in Edmonton, we can administer:

• covid-19 antigen test with travel certificate
• covid-19 PCR test with travel certificate

We can also take a PCR test or a covid-19 antibody test without travel certificate for your peace of mind.

Can I get my covid test results today?

We can provide results for most types of test by 4pm next day. But we do offer an antigen test with travel certificate that gives results within three to four hours.

How will I get my covid test results?

We will email your covid results to you. In many cases you can show your covid test result on a screen at border control

Making an appointment for covid testing

To get a covid test for travel, make an appointment using the booking form on this page.

We can also offer a video-supervised covid testing service.

See a travel health nurse

A travel health appointment is an opportunity to assess the risks you might be exposed to while travelling.

During your appointment you can ask any questions about issues like food safety and infectious diseases. Your travel health adviser will tell you about any steps you must take to support your vaccinations.

Travel vaccines

Your travel health adviser will make some recommendations for the vaccines you need to ensure you travel safely. They will administer some of the shots there and then, but you may need to come back to get further doses of some vaccines. This will ensure you get the best protection possible.

The range of travel shots we can administer includes:

• cholera
• diphtheria
• hepatitis A
• hepatitis B
• Japanese encephalitis
• meningococcal meningitis
• polio
• rabies
• tetanus
• tick-borne encephalitis
• typhoid
• yellow fever.
• Malaria prophylaxis

Malaria is a dangerous mosquito-borne illness caused by a parasite. It can make you very ill for a long time, so it is important to protect yourself from it when travelling in areas where malaria occurs. We can prescribe and dispense malaria tablets. Our travel health advisers are all specialist travel pharmacists whose knowledge and skills are right up-to-date. They will help you to support your course of antimalarials with mosquito avoidance advice.

Anti-malarial regimes can be complicated. The malaria map is always updating and moving around, and advice changes with the seasons and even with activities you have planned. So, get expert help with your anti-malaria regime to ensure best protection.

You will need to start anti-malarials before you arrive and finish the course after you leave. So, bring full details of your itinerary to your appointment. Your travel health adviser might suggest you try a test course of antimalarials to ensure you can tolerate these powerful drugs.

Vaccination certificates

When you arrive at some countries you will not be allowed to stay unless you can prove you are immune to certain diseases, either through vaccination or because you’ve had the disease. Yellow fever is one example of such a disease. Meningococcal meningitis is another. Pilgrims travelling for Haj to Saudi Arabia will need a certificate to prove they have been vaccinated against meningitis.

Your travel health adviser will look at your travel plans and tell you if you will need a certificate of vaccination or immunity. Our Edmonton Downtown clinic has been designated a yellow fever centre by the government of Canada, so we can administer the yellow fever vaccine and provide you with a certificate.

Entry requirements change all the time, so don’t leave it to chance. Come and see us and get the latest, most accurate information about the entry requirements for the countries you are visiting. We have access to specialist resources not available to the public.

Look after your vaccination certificates. If you cannot produce them when required, you may be delayed at the border or sent back to where you came from. It would be very sad to miss out on activities you’ve been looking forward to for want of a vaccination certificate.

Catch-up shots in Edmonton

If you’ve missed out on some shots that you would normally get as part of the Canadian vaccination schedule, come and see us. These shots will protect you from illnesses such as:

• chicken pox
• diphtheria
• pertussis (whooping cough)
• shingles

Health advice when you are travelling for work

Does your job take you overseas? Business travel can put extra strain on your immune system because you need to pack a lot of work into a short period. Your schedule might be disrupted, and you may find yourself having to cope with sudden changes to climate and altitude. Getting ill while travelling means that you will not be able to perform at your best so it’s very important to look after your health when you travel for work.

Our travel health advisers will take a full health history and find out what risks your work will expose you to. They will then recommend shots that will protect you and give advice on steps you can take to reduce your risk of getting sick during or after your travels. Some of the diseases we commonly vaccinate business travellers against, such as Japanese encephalitis, can have life-changing consequences.

If you are short of time, remember our travel health centre has a convenient location in Downtown Edmonton. We can offer appointments at the start and the end of the day and on a Saturday so that you don’t have to disrupt your working day too much. Use our calendar to pick the appointment that is most convenient for you.

Do I need to bring anything to my travel health appointment?

Our travel health advisers ask that you bring to your appointment:

• travel vaccination certificates
• vaccination records
• itinerary, including destinations, dates and planned activities.

Do you need a longer appointment?

Some travellers may require longer appointments because they have complex needs. You can book two appointments back-to-back if any of these apply to you:

• You have a longer trip planned (more than three months)
• You are going to more than three destinations
• You are pregnant or breastfeeding
• You have an underlying condition.

Travellers with underlying conditions should also consult their normal healthcare provider. They can give insights about particular risks and provide specific recommendations to help mitigate the effects of heat, altitude, air travel etc.

I need travel health advice

Vaccination and malaria prophylaxis are reliable, but they do not provide perfect protection. You’ll need to take steps to reduce your expose to pathogens. So, our travel health advisers provide advice, too. They can tell you about:

• avoiding mosquito bites
• avoiding bug and insect bites
• avoiding tick bites
• food safety
• safer drinking water
• sun safety
• preventing accidents.

Don’t risk ruining your trip: follow our travel health advice to stay safe and healthy overseas.

Travelling soon? Come and see us

We recommend seeing a travel health adviser six to eight weeks before you travel. But we know this isn’t always possible. Emergencies crop up, or you want to grab a last-minute deal, or you simply didn’t realize you needed to see a travel health adviser so far ahead of your trip. Even if you think you’ve run out of time, come and see us. There are still steps you can take to protect yourself from ill-health while travelling overseas.

Some vaccines are available on accelerated schedules. And we can help you to modify your itinerary to reduce your risk of exposure to dangerous illnesses.

We can offer same-day appointments, and appointments on Saturdays. Check the calendar to see what we have on offer today. Or give us a call on +1 888 672 0005.

How much will my travel health regime cost?

We publish our price list so you can see how much we will charge for the vaccinations we offer. Our travel health nurses will use professional sources of up-to-date information to recommend an appropriate regime that gives as much protection as you need.

They may recommend combined shots that could be less expensive than two separate vaccinations.

We do not charge extra for administering injections, and there is no dispensing fee either.

Do I need a travel health appointment?

Travellers will be exposed to pathogens and health risks that are not present in Canada. Even simple activities like drinking from a tap or going swimming can expose you to microorganisms that will make you very ill indeed.

Your immune system will be impacted by changes to your routine as well as changes to temperature and altitude. You might be more tired than normal because of jetlag. All of this puts you at increased risk of getting ill.

Falling ill on holiday or while travelling for work can be distressing and isolating, not to mention expensive, even if you are covered by travel health insurance.

Even if you don’t think you need any shots, you may need to modify your behaviour to protect your health when you travel overseas. For example, you might need to take steps to protect yourself from water-borne diseases.

During your travel health appointment, the adviser will tell you everything you need to do to stay safe and healthy while you are overseas. We offer appointments six days a week, so it’s easy to find a convenient slot.