AITC Immunization & Testing
Immunizations for Adults
AITC offers all vaccines that the CDC recommends for adults in the USA (for work, for school, for immigration, or for personal health):
- Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine (MMRII®)
- Tetanus-Diphtheria-Pertussis vaccine (Adacel®); and Tetanus-Diphtheria-only vaccine
- Chickenpox [varicella] vaccine
- Shingles vaccine (Zostavax®)
- Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B vaccines
- HPV vaccine (Gardasil®)
- Flu vaccine (shot or FluMist®)
- Pneumoccoccal [pneumonia] vaccine (Pneumovax®)
- Meningococcal [meningitis] vaccine (Menactra® and Menomune®)
See CDC recommendations for
adult immunizations
Adult immunizations are offered daily on a drop-in basis. No appointment is necessary.
Immunizations for Children
We offer the following services for children accompanied by a parent or legal guardian:
- Travel health visit (including vaccines and prescriptions)
- Flu vaccination (traditional injection or FluMist® nasal spray vaccine)
- HPV (Gardasil®) vaccination for females 9+ years of age
Please note: AITC is not a primary care clinic, and does not offer routine childhood immunization services. Please visit your pediatrician, family doctor, or neighborhood clinic for routine pediatric immunizations.
Appointments are required for international travelers.
Flu vaccination and Gardasil® are offered daily on a drop-in basis. No appointment is necessary.
Blood Testing
A blood test can provide proof of immunity without having to be re-vaccinated. See our information sheet: Testing for Immunity to Vaccine-Preventable Diseases. Diseases.
AITC can check your immunity to:
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Measles / Mumps / Rubella
- Chickenpox
- Rabies
- Polio
You can be infected with hepatitis B and not know it. AITC offers testing to determine your hepatitis B infection status. See our information sheet: Testing for Hepatitis B Infection.
Consider hepatitis B testing if you answer yes to any of the following:
- Were you or your parents born in Asia, Pacific Islands, Africa, Eastern Europe, or the Amazon Basin in South America?
- Have you had a sex partner with hepatitis B or lived in the same household as someone with hepatitis B?
- Are you a male who has had sex with males?
AITC also offers blood typing for adventure/wilderness travelers and others concerned that emergency blood transfusion could be needed overseas, who wish to carry a card with their blood type.
Results are available within 5 business days (and often sooner). We will mail or fax your results; you may discuss your results with an AITC nurse by phone or in person, at no additional charge.
Blood testing is offered daily on a drop-in basis; no appointment is necessary. There is a cost for each test, plus a small fee to draw your blood. See prices.
TB Skin Testing
AITC offers tuberculosis skin testing. On the day of your visit, the test is placed in your skin using an ultra-thin needle. You will be required to return 48-72 hours to have the test read.
- TB skin tests are regularly offered Mon, Tue, Wed, and Friday
- We discourage TB testing on Thursdays and on the Friday before a long weekend, as it will not be possible to read the test within 72 hours.
TB skin testing is offered daily on a drop-in basis; no appointment is necessary.
Flu Vaccination
AITC offers flu vaccine annually from September though January for all adults and children who wish to be protected from seasonal influenza. Since flu season can begin as early as December, vaccination is recommended before the end of November.
AITC also offers flu vaccine year-round for international travelers. Unlike in the US and Europe, flu season occurs year-round in the tropics and during the months of May though September in the Southern Hemisphere.
Our fly vaccine express service will get you in and out quickly.
- Flu vaccine by injecection
- Flu vaccine by nasal Spray (FluMist®) available for ages 2 to 49 who qualify medically
- To help with your selection see "Flu Shot or Flu Mist?"
- We have preservative-free vaccine available for pregnant women
Flu vaccination is offered on a drop-in basis. No appointment is necessary.