Hepatitis B Vaccine Clinic in Toronto

The hepatitis B virus can permanently damage your liver. It's the biggest cause of liver cancer worldwide. You need your liver to digest food and remove waste from your body. People with the disease often become tired, feverish, lose their appetite, and sometimes get yellow skin and eyes (called jaundice). There may be many more people with hep B. You can get it and not even know it. That means you can infect someone else without knowing.

How you can catch Hepatitis B?

You can get hep B through blood and other body fluids from an infected person. It's primarily a sexually transmitted disease, but you can also pick it up through used needles, and through body/ear piercing or tattooing with dirty equipment. An infected mother can pass it to her child at birth. Is there a cure? There is no cure for hep B. Most people get well. But about 10 percent will carry the virus for life and keep infecting other people. Some people will die. There's no way of differentiating those that will recover, carry it for life or die. The good news is that there is preventions through Hepatitis B vaccine.

To get your shot for Hepatitis B vaccination call the Toronto Travel Vaccine and Immunization Clinic at: 416-461-2419.

Disclaimer: The information contained in this document is being provided for general information purposes only and is not meant to substitute in any way whatsoever for advice, medical care or treatment from a medical professional. Please consult our doctor's at the Travel Medical Clinic with any questions or inquiries. Nothing takes the place of speaking with a travel doctor. This information and your receipt thereof is not intended to be, nor shall be deemed to be, informed consent by you to any medical care or treatment whatsoever.

Please note that the doctor's consultation and travel vaccinations are not covered by O.H.I.P. Only basic regular vaccinations are covered by O.H.I.P.

If you have PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE through work or school you may be covered for vaccines. Upon your payment we will issue you a PAID invoice so you can claim your expenses back from your insurance company.

To find out if you have insurance coverage, please have your Drug Identification Numbers ready when you call your insurance company. Click here to find the names and phone numbers of major Insurance Companies.