Ebola disease: Travel health advice

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• Before you travel
• Returning travellers
• Contact your public health authority

Before you travel

Talk to a healthcare provider or visit a travel health clinic preferably about 6 weeks before your trip to get personalized health advice. Even if your travel date is coming up soon, it's still worthwhile to make an appointment.

Check the travel advice and advisories page for your destination.

• Visit the Health section to determine if Ebola disease is a risk at your destination.
• Review the health information to learn about other health risks at your destination and the steps you can take to reduce those risks.
• Read any travel health notices applied to your destination.

Travel advice and advisories by destination

Returning travellers

If you develop symptoms of Ebola disease before you return to Canada:

• Do not travel
• Call a healthcare provider right away and describe your symptoms

If you feel sick or experience symptoms of Ebola disease during a flight, tell:

• the flight attendant before you land, or
• the border services officer as you enter Canada

They'll notify a quarantine officer who will assess your symptoms.

Under the Quarantine Act, you must tell a border services agent if you have, or may have, been exposed to a source of Ebola disease. You must tell them even if you don't show symptoms.

If you develop symptoms of Ebola disease after arriving in Canada:

• isolate yourself from others
• contact your local public health authority right away

They'll tell you what to do next and arrange for you to get a medical assessment.

If you don't have any Ebola disease symptoms but think you may have been exposed while travelling:

• call your local public health authority
• monitor yourself for symptoms for 21 days, including taking your temperature twice a day

Contact your public health authority

Alberta

• Alberta Health Services - HealthLink
• Telephone: 811
  • Ask for the Medical Officer of Health on-call in your zone.

British Columbia

• HealthLinkBC
• Telephone: 811

Manitoba

• Shared Health Manitoba
• Telephone: 204-788-8200
• Telephone: 1-888-315-9257

New Brunswick

• New Brunswick Health
• Telephone: 811
• Telephone: 1-877-795-3773

Newfoundland and Labrador

• Health and Community Services
• Telephone: 811
• Telephone: 1-888-709-2929

Northwest Territories

• Telephone: 811

Nova Scotia

• Nova Scotia Health
• Telephone: 811
• Telephone: 1-866-770-7763 (from a telephone registered in Nova Scotia only)

Nunavut

• Contact Your Local Health Centre

Ontario

• Local Public Health Unit
• Ontario Health 811 - Chat Online
• Telephone: 811
• Telephone: 1-866-797-0007

Prince Edward Island

• Health PEI
• Telephone: 811
• Telephone: 1-866-770-7724 (from a telephone registered in Prince Edward Island only)

Québec

• Info-Santé 811
• Telephone: 811

Saskatchewan

• Saskatchewan Health Authority HealthLine 811
• Telephone: 811
• Telephone: 1-877-800-0002
  • Ask for the Medical Health Officer on-call at your local public health office.

Yukon

• Telephone: 811