First Class Medical Care for Travel Anywhere

Passport Health is the largest provider of travel medical services in the United States with convenient locations nationwide. Whether you are traveling for business or pleasure we can prepare you for your trip with destination-specific travel information, immunizations, travel shots, specialty travel products, and international travel health insurance in all our travel clinics.

Good Health. . . Don't Forget to Take It With You!

Exciting destinations, exotic foods, engaging customs. . . International travel, whether for personal or business reasons, can be challenging if you are not prepared. Disease, illness, crime, and injury happen unexpectedly to even the most experienced traveler. Planning for good health on an international trip is as important as buying tickets or obtaining a visa and passport.  That is why Passport Health's mission is to provide information, travel vaccines, and travel medications for you, the international traveler.

Passport Health
 is a leading provider of travel health information and immunizations for international travelers, major corporations, universities and other international organizations. Our nationwide staff is comprised of professionals that include board-certified physicians and registered nurses who have completed rigorous training in the field of travel medicine and immunology. We are a state certified Yellow Fever vaccine provider.

The Vaccine Specialists

While travel medicine is our specialty, we also respond to our community's need for specialty vaccines that are not necessarily related to travel. We offer protective vaccines for a healthy lifestyle including Shingles, HPV (cervical cancer)Influenza (flu) and Hepatitis A & B among others.







Reuters UK: Map study finds vivax malaria has firm grip in Asia
Reuters UK: MAP ( Oxford's Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) study.) December 5, 2011

Progress is being made in the fight against the most common form of malaria in Africa, but a long-lasting type of the mosquito-borne parasitic disease has a tight grip on swathes of South Asia and parts of Latin America, scientists said on Monday. In a new global map of the plasmodium vivax malaria parasite, researchers from Oxford University found the disease which is often recurring and can be deadly is endemic in substantial parts of the world. This map helps us understand just how difficult it is going to be to eradicate malaria," said Peter Gething, who led Oxford's Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) study. "Unfortunately, the tools for fighting this type of malaria range from ineffective to non-existent." Vivax is not as deadly as the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite that is most common in Africa and causes most of the around 800,000 malaria deaths a year, but it is more common with some 2.85 billion people across the world at risk. It also has a unique ability to relapse by hiding in the liver for months or years, making it harder to detect and cure. Among hotspots for vivax malaria highlighted by MAP team are substantial parts of India, including major urban areas like Mumbai, where malaria was previously uncommon. In the Americas, the area of greatest concern is a large but sparsely populated part of the Northern Amazon, most of which is in Brazil, but the hotspot also includes parts of Peru, Colombia and Venezuela.

VIVAX CAN KILL TOO

Kevin Baird, who works with the Eijkman-Oxford clinical research unit in Indonesia, said it is becoming increasingly clear that vivax is more of a threat than previously thought. A few years ago, he said, the consensus view was that vivax gave patients soaring fevers and severe chills, but was rarely fatal. Now that is starting to change. "We are beginning to suspect...vivax is killing people at far higher rates than anyone...thought even remotely possible," Baird said in a statement. "We still have very little data on this issue, but what data we do have worries me a great deal." See the entire article: Reuters UK : Map, vivax malaria study



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