The One Stop Shop for All of Your Travel Health

The One Stop Shop for All of Your Travel Health Needs

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Globetrotters Travel Clinics are one stop shops for all of your Travel Health needs. We are dedicated to providing quality Travel Health advice and services, as well as premium Travel Health Products.

The recent massive increase in business and recreational travel outside of the UK, has led to the need for dedicated Travel Health Centers. This is because a considerable proportion of travelers end up with a Health problem ranging from Diarrhoea to Malaria or Yellow Fever. Most of the Health problems contracted through traveling are preventable through appropriate Travel Health advice, precautionary measures and Vaccinations.

With vaccine preventable illnesses accounting for only a small proportion of Health problems whilst abroad, at Globetrotters we give individuals, business travellers and students the advice and information they need to stay healthy both whilst overseas and on their return.

At Globetrotters we offer a Travel Health nurses, we are accredited Yellow Fever Centers and offer full pre and post Travel Health screenings as well as all available Travel Vaccinations.

With GP appointment times under ever increasing pressure, the ability of practices to provide adequate time and training for such a complex and demanding field is under stress. This has created a need for travelers to have access to alternative Travel Health service pro viders. Globetrotters Travel Clinics has been established to meet this need.

For more information contact us at Globetrotters Travel Clinics or you can also mail us at info@globetrotterstravelclinics.com.

The Complete Travel Health Clinic Services

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When look for a Travel Clinics it is a excellent idea to check with your own surgical treatment first as some vaccines are available at private Travel Clinic. To get it simple click on Vaccinations

The health risks of travel are preventable, but more than 50% of all travellers abroad experience health problems that interfere with the enjoyment or the success of their trip. Worldwide, disease risks are on the increase. We can help.
The Globetrotters Travel Clinics is one of the foremost independent specialist clinics in the London. Below you can check our services.

Our services include:

Private, specialist suggestions, personalized to your accurate journey and health wants, whether you are travelling on business or for happiness.
• The full range of travel vaccines, at all times in supply. (We keep large supplies of all vaccines, to care for our travellers from the effects of periodic vaccine shortages).
• Yellow Fever vaccination - we are an certified centre.
• The latest malaria medication and advice: - backed up by a wealth of experience in caring for travellers bounce for the world's mainly inhospitable spaces.
• Up-to-the-minute news and information about malaria, health risks and outbreaks around the world.
• Customised medical kits and other recommended health-related products.
• Maximum convenience: consultation via prior arrangement.
• Call-out team available: ideal for groups, corporate travellers, and families.
• All in our own, fully-resourced, multidisciplinary medical centre.

Travellers attendance the Fleet Street Travel Clinics receive individual attention geared to their exact needs and the environment of their tour. The Globetrotters is not just on giving vaccines, but also Giving other useful services for the Which travellers stay in peak conditions while they are away and after they come at home.

Globetrotters Travel Clinics

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About Globetrotters :

The One Stop Shop For All Of Your Travel Health Needs The recent massive increase in business and recreational travel outside of the UK, has led to the need for dedicated Travel Health Centers. This is because a considerable proportion of travelers end up with a health problem ranging from Diarrhea to Malaria or Yellow Fever. Most of the health problems contracted through traveling is preventable through appropriate travel health advice, precautionary measures and Vaccinations. With GP appointment times under ever increasing pressure, the ability of practices to provide adequate time and training for such a complex and demanding field is under stress. This has created a need for travelers to have access to alternative Travel Health service providers. Globetrotters Travel Clinics has been established to meet this need.

who we are?

The recent massive increase in business and recreational travel outside of the UK, has led to the need for dedicated Travel Health Centers . This is because a considerable proportion of travelers end up with a health problem ranging from Diarrhea to Malaria or Yellow Fever. Most of the health problems contracted through traveling is preventable through appropriate travel health advice, precautionary measures and vaccinations.
With GP appointment times under ever increasing pressure, the ability of practices to provide adequate time and training for such a complex and demanding field is under stress. This has created a need for travelers to have access to alternative Travel Health service providers. Globetrotters Travel Clinics has been established to meet this need.

Our services:

Globetrotters Travel clinics are one stop shops for all of your travel health needs. We are dedicated to providing quality travel health advice and services, as well as premium travel travel health products.

At Globetrotters we offer a personal service provided by experienced travel health nurses, we are accredited yellow fever centers and offer full pre and post travel health screenings as well as all available Travel Vaccinations.

With vaccine preventable illnesses accounting for only a small proportion of health problems whilst abroad, at Globetrotters we give individuals, business travellers and students the advice and information they need to stay healthy both whilst overseas and on their return.

what is a vaccine?

Vaccinations are harmless agents, perceived as enemies. They are molecules, usually but not necessarily proteins, that elicit an immune response, thereby providing protective immunity against a potential pathogen. While the pathogen can be a bacterium or even a eukaryotic protozoan, most successful vaccines have been raised against viruses and here we shall deal mostly with anti-viral vaccines.

All Vaccinations Work by presenting a foreign antigen to the immune system in order to evoke an immune response, but there are several ways to do this. The three main types are as follows:
• An inactivated vaccine consists of virus particles which are grown in culture and then killed using a method such as heat or formaldehyde. The virus particles are destroyed and cannot replicate, but the virus capsid proteins are intact enough to be recognized by the immune system and evoke a response. When manufactured correctly, the vaccine is not infectious, but improper inactivation can result in intact and infectious particles. Since the properly produced vaccine does not reproduce, booster shots are required periodically to reinforce the immune response.
• In an attenuated vaccine, live virus particles with very low virulence are administered. They will reproduce, but very slowly. Since they do reproduce and continue to present antigen beyond the initial vaccination, boosters are required less often. These vaccines are produced by growing the virus in tissue cultures that will select for less virulent strains or by mutagenesis or targeted deletions in genes required for virulence. There is a small risk of reversion to virulence; this risk is smaller in vaccines with deletions. Attenuated vaccines also cannot be used by immunocompromised individuals.
• A subunit vaccine presents an antigen to the immune system without introducing viral particles, whole or otherwise. One method of production involves isolation of a specific protein from a virus and administering this by itself. A weakness of this technique is that isolated proteins can be denatured and will then bind to different antibodies than the proteins in the virus. A second method of subunit vaccine is the recombinant vaccine, which involves putting a protein gene from the targeted virus into another virus. The second virus will express the protein, but will not present a risk to the patient.
• Killed vaccines: These are preparations of the normal (wild type) infectious, pathogenic virus that has been rendered non-pathogenic, usually by chemical treatment such as with formalin that cross-links viral proteins.
• Attenuated vaccines: These are live virus particles that grow in the vaccine recipient but do not cause disease because the vaccine virus has been altered (mutated) to a non-pathogenic form; for example, its tropism has been altered so that it no longer grows at a site that can cause disease.
• Sub-unit vaccines: These are purified components of the virus, such as a surface antigen.

Problems in vaccine development:

There are many problems inherent in developing a good protective anti-viral vaccine. Among these are:

• Different types of virus may cause similar diseases--e.g. common cold. As a result, a single vaccine will not be possible against such a disease
• Antigenic drift and shift -- This is especially true of RNA viruses and those with segmented genomes
• Large animal reservoirs. If these occur, reinfection after elimination from the human population may occur
• Integration of viral DNA. Vaccines will not work on latent virions unless they express antigens on cell surface. In addition, if the vaccine virus integrates into host cell chromosomes, it may cause problems (This is, for example, a problem with the possible use of anti-HIV vaccines based on attenuated virus strains- see later)
• Transmission from cell to cell via syncytia - This is a problem for potential AIDS vaccines since the virus may spread from cell to cell without the virus entering the circulation.
• Recombination and mutation of the vaccine virus in an attenuated vaccine.

Despite these problems, anti-viral vaccines have, in some cases, been spectacularly successful (figure 1) leading in one case (smallpox) to the elimination of the disease from the human population. The smallpox vaccine is an example of an attenuated vaccine, although not of the original pathogenic smallpox virus. Another successful vaccine is the polio vaccine which may lead to the elimination of this disease from the human population in a the next few years. This vaccine comes in two forms. The Salk vaccine is a killed vaccine while that developed by Sabin is a live attenuated vaccine. Polio is presently restricted to parts of UK and South Asia.