A yellow fever vaccination in our travel clinic Ashtead

Nothing ruins your vacation in a foreign country like not being able to enjoy it, not because you suddenly become melancholy, instead because you fell sick at travel. The human immune system protects the body against diseases it has contacted before. Old immune cells store information on all invading organisms they came in contact with and pass the memory on to the new immune cells which can use the information in fighting those diseases too.

When the body comes in contact with foreign infections which the immune system has never seen before, such as infections you are more likely to encounter abroad, there is a high possibility it would be unable to fight such ― that is the work of vaccination. Vaccines introduce sterile pathogens into the body to enable the immune system gain experience fighting the weak pathogens to be able to combat the agile ones in future.

Miles’ Pharmacy discrete and experienced staff has been helping people protect themselves against killer diseases for more than 50 years. Our travel clinic Ashtead is to help travellers safeguard themselves against infections abroad.

To avoid transmission of diseases like yellow fever to UK citizens, the UK immigration service ensures travellers from countries or areas at risk of yellow fever transmission such as most countries in Africa and some in America like Brazil and Argentina provide a proof of yellow fever vaccination to prevent any infected person from transmitting it here. This is why it is important for you to ensure you vaccinate yourself before travelling especially to any of these countries.

A yellow fever vaccination in our travel clinic Ashtead is for a lifetime. Once done, it is forever effective ― you can relax of not contracting the disease which currently has no cure and accounted for the death of more than 20,000 people.