Travel

Park City Vaccines Inc provides travel consultation, immunizations and prescriptions through appointments at its clinic in Kimball Junction/Newpark Area of Park City. We stock all vaccines required for travel on site at our clinic. We take most insurance, including Medicare B and D, for vaccines that are covered under your particular insurance plan.

Available Vaccinations

At Park City Vaccines, we provide both travel and routine adult vaccinations:

• Hepatitis A, B or Twinrix (Combination A/B)
• Typhoid
• Polio
• Meningococcal
• TD (Tetanus)
• TDAP (Tetanus/Diphtheria/Pertussis or whooping cough)
• MMRII
• Varicella
• Japanese Encephalitis
• Influenza (shot and mist)
• Pneumovax
• Rabies (pre exposure)
• Shingles
• HPV/Gardasil
• Yellow Fever

On-Site Services

On-site services include:

• Group travel for business, church groups or adventure trips
• On-site Flu clinics during season

What you need to know for travel:

1. Make your appointment early. Ideally, you should make an appointment 1-2 months before travel in case you need a series of shots e.g. Hep A/B

2. If it is less than 4 weeks before you leave, let us know when you schedule your appointment so that we can place you on an accelerated vaccine schedule if needed.

3. Most vaccines take 1-2 weeks to provide you immunity protection and some vaccines must be given in a series over a period of days or sometimes weeks.

4. So you have time to get all your immunization records together. Review the links below to determine which routine vaccines you may need as many countries have diseases that are not prevalent in the U.S. ( http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules).

5. The U.S. routine schedule for childhood immunizations may need to be accelerated if a child is traveling with you. Check with your Pediatrian and update them before you arrive for your travel visit.

6. Vaccine needs vary considerably from country to country but the best place to start is with the recommended vaccine schedules for children and adults. Adults often neglect to keep up the recommended schedule of booster vaccinations, particularly if the risk of infection is low. Additionally, some adults have never been vaccinated at all. It is important to realize that diseases such as diphtheria and poliomyelitis, which no longer occur in most industrialized countries, many be present in those visited by travelers. Pre-travel precautions should include booster doses of routine vaccines if the “recommended adult schedule” is not updated.

Additional vaccines are advised on the basis of a travel risk assessment for the individual traveler. In deciding which vaccines are appropriate, the following factors should be considered for each vaccine:

• risk of exposure to the disease
• age, health status, vaccination history
• special risk factors
• reactions to previous vaccine doses, allergies
• risk of infecting others

Mandatory vaccination, as authorized by the International Health Regulations, now concerns only yellow fever. Yellow fever vaccination is carried out for two different reasons:

(a.) to protect the individual in areas where there is a risk of yellow fever infection, and
(b.) to protect vulnerable countries from importation of the yellow fever virus.

Travelers should therefore be vaccinated if they visit a country where there is a risk of exposure to yellow fever. They must be vaccinated if they visit a country that requires yellow fever vaccination as a condition of entry: this condition applies to all travelers who arrive from (including airport transit) a yellow fever endemic country.

Vaccine Categories

1. Routine vaccination

• Tetanus (TD)
• Tetanus with pertussis (TDAP)
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
• Poliomyelitis
• Influenza
• HPV
• Shingles

2. Selective vaccination determined by destination and risk factors

• Influenza
• Hepatitis B
• Japanese encephalitis
• Malaria (pills)
• Meningococcal meningitis
• Pneumococcal disease
• Rabies
• Varicella
• Typhoid fever
• Yellow fever

3. REQUIRED vaccination

• Yellow fever (for protection of vulnerable countries)
• Meningococcal meningitis (for Hajj, Umra)

7. If your immune system compromises from a chronic illness or medications:

When you make your appointment please let us know if you are have a compromised immune system and any steroids or chemotherapy that you are receiving or plan to receive before your trip. Vaccines may not be as effective in persons with a compromised immune system.

8. Review your destination:
Click on our Links tab to preview information regarding your specific travel destinations. At your visit, we provide you with a report on the latest recommendation using unique software that uses multiple sources of information.

9. Traveling with children:
Make sure your pediatric physician is aware of your travel location and bring your child’s immunization records to your appointment. You can also review traveling with children on the CDC website.

10. Pregnant and Breastfeeding:
When you make your appointment please let us know if you are pregnant, are breast-feeding, or plan to become pregnant so that we can discuss the risk and benefits of each recommended or required vaccine.