Travel Health

Information and Travel Immunizations
Call: (512) 475-8301

Travel Physical Exams
Call: (512) 471-4955
To cancel an appointment, call (512) 475-8265 or log on to MyUHS.

Take the UHS online travel health course

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Pre-Departure To-Do List:

1. Visit the website, Travel Health Online, which provides free, up-to-date information about which vaccines you will need for each country you plan to visit (registration required). Go to Travel Health Online
2. Take the UHS online travel health course
3. Call the Allergy and Immunization Clinic at 512-475-8301 to make an appointment with the travel health nurse.

Travel Health Online provides travel health information for virtually every country in the world. By registering and reading about each country on your itinerary, you can create a list of vaccines to discuss with the travel health nurse.

The UHS online travel health course takes about 15 minutes. In it, you will learn about the common ways diseases are transmitted and how to avoid getting sick.

During your appointment, you and the travel health nurse will discuss the vaccines and malaria medication to consider based on your itinerary. He or she will outline country-specific risks and precautions, answer any remaining questions you have about staying healthy while traveling, and administer vaccines should you choose to get them.

The following vaccines are available at UHS:

• Hepatitis A (PDF)
• Hepatitis B (PDF)
• Human Papillomavirus (HPV) (PDF)
• Influenza (Flu)
• Measles/Mumps/Rubella (PDF)
• Meningococcal Disease (bacterial meningitis (PDF)
• Pneumococcal Pneumonia (PDF)
• Polio (PDF)
• Typhoid (PDF)
• Rabies, pre-exposure (PDF)
• Japanese Encephalitis (PDF)
• Yellow Fever (PDF) (Not available at UHS until 2020)
   Search the CDC Website for clinics that currently offer the Yellow Fever vaccine.
• Tetanus / Diphtheria / Pertussis (PDF)
• Varicella (Chickenpox) (PDF)

Prevention Information:

• Preventing and Reducing Vaccine Side Effects (PDF)
• Malaria and Travelers
• Dengue Fever
• Tuberculosis

Additional Resources

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention Travelers' Health information about infectious diseases
• U.S. State Department travel advisories and other information, by country
• Travel Health Online credible source of travel health and safety information
• My UHS View and print your UHS immunization record. (UT EID required.)

Helpful Links

The Meningococcal B vaccine is not available at University Health Services. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) does not recommend routine vaccination of adolescents.

According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The current low prevalence of disease, coupled with the fact that important data for making policy recommendations for MenB vaccines are not yet available, resulted in ACIP determining that insufficient evidence exists to make a routine public health recommendation that all adolescents be vaccinated with MenB vaccine. Learn more here.