Draft for discussion. No build date implied.
About this demo

A proof of concept of the Orlando Health Travel Medicine program and the Infectious Diseases line on orlandohealth.com and every page it links to, built from our page drafts on the service line, facility and health library templates, with placeholder photos, doctors, locations and articles. It uses no built components and implies no build date. Medical copy is a draft for clinical review.

Every page has one owner. A page another team owns appears here because this line links to it, and changes to it go to that team.

Infectious Diseases

Board-certified infectious disease specialists diagnose and treat infections caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, and help travelers prepare for trips abroad, at offices across Central Florida and Tampa Bay.

Medically Reviewed Content
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
About this module

Template module · Written copy, the hero description field (40 to 380 characters; ours, 220). The buttons are Find an Infectious Disease Doctor and Find a Location.

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Find an Infectious Disease Doctor · Find a Location. The line serves every infectious disease, most of them by referral: the two doors are the doctor and the place. Travel medicine has its own page and its own button there.
RESEARCHCare team cards carry the team's own logo, and no photo yet

Keep the designer's text card and put each team's own lockup (Air Care, Winnie Palmer Hospital, Women's Institute, Orlando Health Children's) in its logo slot. Add a photo band only when every team on the page has a real photo of its own people or place.

  • Eyetracking: people skip decorative and stock images and study images that carry information. Real staff portraits drew 10 percent more viewing time than the bios beside them, though the bios took 316 percent more space; uninformative thumbnails drew about 0.9 fixations each against 4.4 on the text.
  • Card guidance across design systems: images help a reader scan a set of cards when each one is distinct, and hurt when they repeat or say nothing the title does not; text-only cards are a standard variant.
  • Healthcare: every source found points the same way, toward real photos of the actual staff and places over stock, but no rigorous study measures the effect on booking.
  • Measured on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: two of the eight teams have a real photo of their own (the Air Care helicopter, the Children's pavilion); the other six pages use stock tiles. A grid with photos on two cards of eight reads as broken, so the lockup, which every team has, does the recognizing.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGPlain words, and no NICU alarm for parents of full-term babies

Labels, closing bands and the line page's opening are factual, with no warmth words and no severity words. A page a healthy newborn's parent reads (jaundice, a glucose check, a hearing screen) never leads with the NICU or closes on a NICU band; nursery care has its own closing.

  • Parents of NICU babies recoil from sweet or sentimental copy.
  • Parents of full-term babies are frightened by NICU detail, and most newborns never need one: neonatal care is five settings, the delivery room, the nursery, the Level II and the Level III and IV NICUs, and follow-up, and the NICU is two of them.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the sections below. Nothing is supplied.

What Infectious Disease Specialists Treat

Our specialists care for infections that are complex, long lasting or hard to treat, including HIV, hepatitis B and C, pneumonia, bone and joint infections, bloodstream infections, infections after surgery and infections that resist common antibiotics.

They also care for people whose defenses are lowered by cancer treatment, a transplant or medicines that calm the immune system, and for illnesses picked up abroad, such as malaria. Care is given in our offices and, when you are in the hospital, at your bedside.

About this module

Template module · Written block (style guide §11.7). The live practice's overview and conditions list, in prose.

Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Getting Ready for a Trip Abroad

Our Travel Medicine program prepares you for travel abroad with the vaccines, medicines and advice your destination calls for, including hard-to-find vaccines such as yellow fever. Book your visit 4 to 6 weeks before you leave; last-minute travelers are welcome.

About this module

Template module · Image and text (§11.8). ⭐ The call's ruling: travel medicine is its own program and is also shown inside its line, so a traveler who starts here finds it.

Our Infectious Diseases Teams

Orlando Health Medical Group Infectious DiseasesFive offices across Central FloridaOrlando Health Medical Group

Infectious disease physicians and nurse practitioners at five Central Florida offices, in the office and in the hospital.

Learn More
Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health Infectious Diseases and Wound CareWesley Chapel and ZephyrhillsFlorida Medical Clinic Orlando Health

Infectious disease physicians and advanced practice nurses at clinics in Wesley Chapel and Zephyrhills, Pasco County.

Learn More
Orlando Health Children's Infectious DiseaseOrlandoOrlando Health Children's Arnold Palmer Hospital

Infectious disease care for children and teens at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

Learn More
About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the care team records, a card for each team on this line. Children link out to Arnold Palmer's existing pediatric infectious disease page, as the other lines link to their children's teams.

Find an Infectious Disease Doctor

Type a city or zip code
Use My Location
Type a doctor's first or last name
Female Male
View Doctors with Online Scheduling
[n] doctors foundMany doctors have multiple practice locations. View the doctor's profile for a complete list of their locationsSort By: A to Z
[Doctor Name 1], MD Infectious DiseasesOH Medical Group Member[Location]
[Address Line]
[City], FL [Zip]
000-000-0000Online Scheduling Available
[Doctor Name 2], MD Infectious DiseasesOH Medical Group Member[Location]
[Address Line]
[City], FL [Zip]
000-000-0000Online Scheduling Available
[Doctor Name 3], MD Infectious DiseasesOH Medical Group Member[Location]
[Address Line]
[City], FL [Zip]
000-000-0000Online Scheduling Available
123›
About this module

Template module · Fills itself. The doctor finder, filtered to infectious diseases. Nothing is supplied.

Primary Care

Your primary care doctor is often the one who refers you, and stays your doctor while an infection is treated.

Learn More About Primary Care
Cancer

Chemotherapy lowers the body's defenses, and infectious disease doctors help prevent and treat infections during treatment.

Learn More About Cancer
Rheumatology

Medicines that calm the immune system can raise infection risk, so patients are screened before they start them.

Learn More About Rheumatology
Pulmonary and Critical Care

Lung specialists and infectious disease doctors work together on pneumonia, tuberculosis and fungal lung infections.

Learn More About Pulmonary and Critical Care
Emergency and Trauma Care

Sepsis and other serious infections are often first treated in the emergency room.

Learn More About Emergency and Trauma Care

View All Service Lines

About this module

Template module · The tabs module. Services holds service lines only, from oh_travel_related_service_lines.md; Conditions and Treatments fill themselves from the health library.

Programs

Travel Medicine

Vaccines, medicines and a plan for staying well on your trip abroad, at infectious diseases offices across Central Florida.

Learn More About Travel Medicine

View All Programs

Conditions

Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Learn More About Malaria
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most...

Learn More About Travelers' Diarrhea
Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually...

Learn More About Altitude Sickness

View All Conditions

Treatments

Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health,...

Learn More About Travel Medicine Consultation
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid,...

Learn More About Travel Vaccines

View All Treatments

Questions People Ask Us

Do I need a referral?

Many patients come because their doctor sent them, and some insurance plans require a referral. Travel visits do not need one; call to book.

What does an infectious disease specialist do?

They find the cause of an infection and choose the treatment that clears it, especially when an infection is unusual, keeps coming back or does not respond to the usual medicines.

Do you see children?

Our pediatric infectious disease specialists at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children care for babies, children and teens.

I am traveling abroad soon. Can you help?

Yes. Our Travel Medicine program gives travel visits, vaccines and medicines in our offices. Book 4 to 6 weeks before you leave if you can.

About this module

Template module · Written copy. Entry questions about the line.

Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases

at Orlando Health Medical Group, Dr. Phillips
8500 Commodity Cir., Orlando, FL 32819
Office phone: (407) 423-1039
Open weekdays, by appointment
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the office's location record: the page heading, "at" and the practice, the address, the phone, Click for Directions and Click to Call, over a photograph of the building. The live record calls this office "Orlando Health Medical Group Infectious Diseases - Dr. Phillips".

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Click for Directions · Click to Call. An office page: its reader is going there or calling. Directions and the phone, the facility template's own actions.
RESEARCHCare team cards carry the team's own logo, and no photo yet

Keep the designer's text card and put each team's own lockup (Air Care, Winnie Palmer Hospital, Women's Institute, Orlando Health Children's) in its logo slot. Add a photo band only when every team on the page has a real photo of its own people or place.

  • Eyetracking: people skip decorative and stock images and study images that carry information. Real staff portraits drew 10 percent more viewing time than the bios beside them, though the bios took 316 percent more space; uninformative thumbnails drew about 0.9 fixations each against 4.4 on the text.
  • Card guidance across design systems: images help a reader scan a set of cards when each one is distinct, and hurt when they repeat or say nothing the title does not; text-only cards are a standard variant.
  • Healthcare: every source found points the same way, toward real photos of the actual staff and places over stock, but no rigorous study measures the effect on booking.
  • Measured on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: two of the eight teams have a real photo of their own (the Air Care helicopter, the Children's pavilion); the other six pages use stock tiles. A grid with photos on two cards of eight reads as broken, so the lockup, which every team has, does the recognizing.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the sections below. Nothing is supplied.

Getting Here

This office is in southwest Orlando, near Dr. Phillips and the Sand Lake Road corridor. The address is 8500 Commodity Cir., Orlando, FL 32819.

Call ahead at (407) 423-1039 to book your visit, and ask the team for parking and entrance directions when you do.

Bring your travel plans with you: the countries and cities you will visit, your dates, and any vaccine records you have, so the visit can start from what you already have.

About this module

Library module · Written copy with bold lead-ins: the way to this office, which no other page can say.

Map and Directions

Map placeholder1
Category Name
View As List
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
TRAVEL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASESOrlando Health Medical Group, Dr. Phillips
8500 Commodity Cir., Orlando, FL 32819Open [Hours, from the record](407) 423-1039
Directions
Learn More
About this module

Template module · Fills itself: the map, with this office's card, from the location record. Nothing is supplied.

What This Location Offers

What a travel visit at this office covers.

A Plan for Your Trip
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Advice for Staying Well Abroad

Your clinician reviews where you are going, how long you will stay and what you will be doing, and gives you advice for staying well where you are going.

Vaccines for Your Destination
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Routine and Travel Vaccines in One Visit

Routine vaccines are brought up to date and the vaccines your trip calls for are given, such as typhoid, rabies or yellow fever, based on your itinerary.

Medicine to Take With You
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Prescriptions for Malaria and Travelers' Diarrhea

If your trip calls for it, you leave with prescriptions to prevent malaria or to treat travelers' diarrhea while you are away.

About this module

Library module · The Marketer's Playground (§11.9): one introduction, then rows, each with a photograph, a headline and a short paragraph. Kim on the call: anything special about this location goes here, with an optional button, such as a travel guide to download. The rows below are true of every travel visit; this office's own row replaces or joins them once Kevin names what is different here. Prompts for the marketer, never to publish as written: a destination guide to download · a group-trip day for a school or mission team · a note for team members.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I book a travel visit here?

Call (407) 423-1039. Tell the team you are planning a trip abroad so they book a travel consultation rather than a standard visit.

How early should I come in?

Four to six weeks before you leave is best, because some vaccines take time to work or come in more than one dose. If you are leaving sooner, call anyway.

What should I bring?

Your itinerary, your vaccine records, a list of the medicines you take and your insurance card.

About this module

Template module · Written copy. On an office page the block answers questions about this office. Questions about travel visits everywhere are on the Travel Medicine program page.

Infectious Diseases

This Dr. Phillips office sees patients for travel consultations and the full range of infectious disease care.

Learn More About Infectious Diseases

View All Service Lines

About this module

Template module · Fills itself under the template's own heading, three tabs of cards. Nothing is written on this page. Services leads with Infectious Diseases, linking up to /services/infectious-diseases.

Conditions

Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Learn More About Malaria
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most...

Learn More About Travelers' Diarrhea
Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually...

Learn More About Altitude Sickness

View All Conditions

Treatments

Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health,...

Learn More About Travel Medicine Consultation
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid,...

Learn More About Travel Vaccines

View All Treatments

Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases

at Orlando Health Medical Group, Ocoee
10000 W. Colonial Dr., Suite 387, Ocoee, FL 34761
Office phone: (407) 423-1039
Open weekdays, by appointment
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the office's location record: the page heading, "at" and the practice, the address, the phone, Click for Directions and Click to Call, over a photograph of the building. The live record calls this office "Orlando Health Medical Group Infectious Diseases (Ocoee)".

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Click for Directions · Click to Call. An office page: its reader is going there or calling. Directions and the phone, the facility template's own actions.
RESEARCHCare team cards carry the team's own logo, and no photo yet

Keep the designer's text card and put each team's own lockup (Air Care, Winnie Palmer Hospital, Women's Institute, Orlando Health Children's) in its logo slot. Add a photo band only when every team on the page has a real photo of its own people or place.

  • Eyetracking: people skip decorative and stock images and study images that carry information. Real staff portraits drew 10 percent more viewing time than the bios beside them, though the bios took 316 percent more space; uninformative thumbnails drew about 0.9 fixations each against 4.4 on the text.
  • Card guidance across design systems: images help a reader scan a set of cards when each one is distinct, and hurt when they repeat or say nothing the title does not; text-only cards are a standard variant.
  • Healthcare: every source found points the same way, toward real photos of the actual staff and places over stock, but no rigorous study measures the effect on booking.
  • Measured on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: two of the eight teams have a real photo of their own (the Air Care helicopter, the Children's pavilion); the other six pages use stock tiles. A grid with photos on two cards of eight reads as broken, so the lockup, which every team has, does the recognizing.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the sections below. Nothing is supplied.

Getting Here

This office is in west Orange County, on West Colonial Drive. The address is 10000 W. Colonial Dr., Suite 387, Ocoee, FL 34761.

Call ahead at (407) 423-1039 to book your visit, and ask the team for parking and entrance directions when you do.

Bring your travel plans with you: the countries and cities you will visit, your dates, and any vaccine records you have, so the visit can start from what you already have.

About this module

Library module · Written copy with bold lead-ins: the way to this office, which no other page can say.

Map and Directions

Map placeholder1
Category Name
View As List
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
TRAVEL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASESOrlando Health Medical Group, Ocoee
10000 W. Colonial Dr., Suite 387, Ocoee, FL 34761Open [Hours, from the record](407) 423-1039
Directions
Learn More
About this module

Template module · Fills itself: the map, with this office's card, from the location record. Nothing is supplied.

What This Location Offers

What a travel visit at this office covers.

A Plan for Your Trip
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Advice for Staying Well Abroad

Your clinician reviews where you are going, how long you will stay and what you will be doing, and gives you advice for staying well where you are going.

Vaccines for Your Destination
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Routine and Travel Vaccines in One Visit

Routine vaccines are brought up to date and the vaccines your trip calls for are given, such as typhoid, rabies or yellow fever, based on your itinerary.

Medicine to Take With You
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Prescriptions for Malaria and Travelers' Diarrhea

If your trip calls for it, you leave with prescriptions to prevent malaria or to treat travelers' diarrhea while you are away.

About this module

Library module · The Marketer's Playground (§11.9): one introduction, then rows, each with a photograph, a headline and a short paragraph. Kim on the call: anything special about this location goes here, with an optional button, such as a travel guide to download. The rows below are true of every travel visit; this office's own row replaces or joins them once Kevin names what is different here. Prompts for the marketer, never to publish as written: a destination guide to download · a group-trip day for a school or mission team · a note for team members.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I book a travel visit here?

Call (407) 423-1039. Tell the team you are planning a trip abroad so they book a travel consultation rather than a standard visit.

How early should I come in?

Four to six weeks before you leave is best, because some vaccines take time to work or come in more than one dose. If you are leaving sooner, call anyway.

What should I bring?

Your itinerary, your vaccine records, a list of the medicines you take and your insurance card.

About this module

Template module · Written copy. On an office page the block answers questions about this office. Questions about travel visits everywhere are on the Travel Medicine program page.

Infectious Diseases

The Ocoee office on West Colonial Drive gives travel consultations and infectious disease care for west Orange County.

Learn More About Infectious Diseases

View All Service Lines

About this module

Template module · Fills itself under the template's own heading, three tabs of cards. Nothing is written on this page. Services leads with Infectious Diseases, linking up to /services/infectious-diseases.

Conditions

Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Learn More About Malaria
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most...

Learn More About Travelers' Diarrhea
Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually...

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Treatments

Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health,...

Learn More About Travel Medicine Consultation
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid,...

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Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases

at Orlando Health Medical Group, Longwood
521 W. SR 434, Suite 305, Longwood, FL 32750
Office phone: (407) 423-1039
Open weekdays, by appointment
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the office's location record: the page heading, "at" and the practice, the address, the phone, Click for Directions and Click to Call, over a photograph of the building. The live record calls this office "Orlando Health Medical Group Infectious Diseases - Longwood".

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Click for Directions · Click to Call. An office page: its reader is going there or calling. Directions and the phone, the facility template's own actions.
RESEARCHCare team cards carry the team's own logo, and no photo yet

Keep the designer's text card and put each team's own lockup (Air Care, Winnie Palmer Hospital, Women's Institute, Orlando Health Children's) in its logo slot. Add a photo band only when every team on the page has a real photo of its own people or place.

  • Eyetracking: people skip decorative and stock images and study images that carry information. Real staff portraits drew 10 percent more viewing time than the bios beside them, though the bios took 316 percent more space; uninformative thumbnails drew about 0.9 fixations each against 4.4 on the text.
  • Card guidance across design systems: images help a reader scan a set of cards when each one is distinct, and hurt when they repeat or say nothing the title does not; text-only cards are a standard variant.
  • Healthcare: every source found points the same way, toward real photos of the actual staff and places over stock, but no rigorous study measures the effect on booking.
  • Measured on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: two of the eight teams have a real photo of their own (the Air Care helicopter, the Children's pavilion); the other six pages use stock tiles. A grid with photos on two cards of eight reads as broken, so the lockup, which every team has, does the recognizing.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the sections below. Nothing is supplied.

Getting Here

This office is in Seminole County, on State Road 434. The address is 521 W. SR 434, Suite 305, Longwood, FL 32750.

Call ahead at (407) 423-1039 to book your visit, and ask the team for parking and entrance directions when you do.

Bring your travel plans with you: the countries and cities you will visit, your dates, and any vaccine records you have, so the visit can start from what you already have.

About this module

Library module · Written copy with bold lead-ins: the way to this office, which no other page can say.

Map and Directions

Map placeholder1
Category Name
View As List
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
TRAVEL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASESOrlando Health Medical Group, Longwood
521 W. SR 434, Suite 305, Longwood, FL 32750Open [Hours, from the record](407) 423-1039
Directions
Learn More
About this module

Template module · Fills itself: the map, with this office's card, from the location record. Nothing is supplied.

What This Location Offers

What a travel visit at this office covers.

A Plan for Your Trip
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Advice for Staying Well Abroad

Your clinician reviews where you are going, how long you will stay and what you will be doing, and gives you advice for staying well where you are going.

Vaccines for Your Destination
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Routine and Travel Vaccines in One Visit

Routine vaccines are brought up to date and the vaccines your trip calls for are given, such as typhoid, rabies or yellow fever, based on your itinerary.

Medicine to Take With You
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Prescriptions for Malaria and Travelers' Diarrhea

If your trip calls for it, you leave with prescriptions to prevent malaria or to treat travelers' diarrhea while you are away.

About this module

Library module · The Marketer's Playground (§11.9): one introduction, then rows, each with a photograph, a headline and a short paragraph. Kim on the call: anything special about this location goes here, with an optional button, such as a travel guide to download. The rows below are true of every travel visit; this office's own row replaces or joins them once Kevin names what is different here. Prompts for the marketer, never to publish as written: a destination guide to download · a group-trip day for a school or mission team · a note for team members.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I book a travel visit here?

Call (407) 423-1039. Tell the team you are planning a trip abroad so they book a travel consultation rather than a standard visit.

How early should I come in?

Four to six weeks before you leave is best, because some vaccines take time to work or come in more than one dose. If you are leaving sooner, call anyway.

What should I bring?

Your itinerary, your vaccine records, a list of the medicines you take and your insurance card.

About this module

Template module · Written copy. On an office page the block answers questions about this office. Questions about travel visits everywhere are on the Travel Medicine program page.

Infectious Diseases

The Longwood office serves Seminole County with travel consultations and infectious disease care.

Learn More About Infectious Diseases

View All Service Lines

About this module

Template module · Fills itself under the template's own heading, three tabs of cards. Nothing is written on this page. Services leads with Infectious Diseases, linking up to /services/infectious-diseases.

Conditions

Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Learn More About Malaria
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most...

Learn More About Travelers' Diarrhea
Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually...

Learn More About Altitude Sickness

View All Conditions

Treatments

Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health,...

Learn More About Travel Medicine Consultation
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid,...

Learn More About Travel Vaccines

View All Treatments

Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases

at Orlando Health Medical Group, Clermont
1920 Don Wickham Dr., Suite 115, Clermont, FL 34711
Office phone: (407) 423-1039
Open weekdays, by appointment
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the office's location record: the page heading, "at" and the practice, the address, the phone, Click for Directions and Click to Call, over a photograph of the building. The live record calls this office "Orlando Health Medical Group Infectious Diseases - Clermont".

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Click for Directions · Click to Call. An office page: its reader is going there or calling. Directions and the phone, the facility template's own actions.
RESEARCHCare team cards carry the team's own logo, and no photo yet

Keep the designer's text card and put each team's own lockup (Air Care, Winnie Palmer Hospital, Women's Institute, Orlando Health Children's) in its logo slot. Add a photo band only when every team on the page has a real photo of its own people or place.

  • Eyetracking: people skip decorative and stock images and study images that carry information. Real staff portraits drew 10 percent more viewing time than the bios beside them, though the bios took 316 percent more space; uninformative thumbnails drew about 0.9 fixations each against 4.4 on the text.
  • Card guidance across design systems: images help a reader scan a set of cards when each one is distinct, and hurt when they repeat or say nothing the title does not; text-only cards are a standard variant.
  • Healthcare: every source found points the same way, toward real photos of the actual staff and places over stock, but no rigorous study measures the effect on booking.
  • Measured on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: two of the eight teams have a real photo of their own (the Air Care helicopter, the Children's pavilion); the other six pages use stock tiles. A grid with photos on two cards of eight reads as broken, so the lockup, which every team has, does the recognizing.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the sections below. Nothing is supplied.

Getting Here

This office is in Lake County, on Don Wickham Drive. The address is 1920 Don Wickham Dr., Suite 115, Clermont, FL 34711.

Call ahead at (407) 423-1039 to book your visit, and ask the team for parking and entrance directions when you do.

Bring your travel plans with you: the countries and cities you will visit, your dates, and any vaccine records you have, so the visit can start from what you already have.

About this module

Library module · Written copy with bold lead-ins: the way to this office, which no other page can say.

Map and Directions

Map placeholder1
Category Name
View As List
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
TRAVEL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASESOrlando Health Medical Group, Clermont
1920 Don Wickham Dr., Suite 115, Clermont, FL 34711Open [Hours, from the record](407) 423-1039
Directions
Learn More
About this module

Template module · Fills itself: the map, with this office's card, from the location record. Nothing is supplied.

What This Location Offers

What a travel visit at this office covers.

A Plan for Your Trip
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Advice for Staying Well Abroad

Your clinician reviews where you are going, how long you will stay and what you will be doing, and gives you advice for staying well where you are going.

Vaccines for Your Destination
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Routine and Travel Vaccines in One Visit

Routine vaccines are brought up to date and the vaccines your trip calls for are given, such as typhoid, rabies or yellow fever, based on your itinerary.

Medicine to Take With You
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Prescriptions for Malaria and Travelers' Diarrhea

If your trip calls for it, you leave with prescriptions to prevent malaria or to treat travelers' diarrhea while you are away.

About this module

Library module · The Marketer's Playground (§11.9): one introduction, then rows, each with a photograph, a headline and a short paragraph. Kim on the call: anything special about this location goes here, with an optional button, such as a travel guide to download. The rows below are true of every travel visit; this office's own row replaces or joins them once Kevin names what is different here. Prompts for the marketer, never to publish as written: a destination guide to download · a group-trip day for a school or mission team · a note for team members.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I book a travel visit here?

Call (407) 423-1039. Tell the team you are planning a trip abroad so they book a travel consultation rather than a standard visit.

How early should I come in?

Four to six weeks before you leave is best, because some vaccines take time to work or come in more than one dose. If you are leaving sooner, call anyway.

What should I bring?

Your itinerary, your vaccine records, a list of the medicines you take and your insurance card.

About this module

Template module · Written copy. On an office page the block answers questions about this office. Questions about travel visits everywhere are on the Travel Medicine program page.

Infectious Diseases

The Clermont office brings travel consultations and infectious disease care to Lake County.

Learn More About Infectious Diseases

View All Service Lines

About this module

Template module · Fills itself under the template's own heading, three tabs of cards. Nothing is written on this page. Services leads with Infectious Diseases, linking up to /services/infectious-diseases.

Conditions

Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Learn More About Malaria
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most...

Learn More About Travelers' Diarrhea
Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually...

Learn More About Altitude Sickness

View All Conditions

Treatments

Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health,...

Learn More About Travel Medicine Consultation
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid,...

Learn More About Travel Vaccines

View All Treatments

Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases

at Orlando Health Medical Group, Downtown Orlando
1012 Lucerne Terrace, Orlando, FL 32806
Office phone: (407) 423-1039
Open weekdays, by appointment
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the office's location record: the page heading, "at" and the practice, the address, the phone, Click for Directions and Click to Call, over a photograph of the building. The live record calls this office "Orlando Health Medical Group Infectious Diseases - Downtown Orlando".

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Click for Directions · Click to Call. An office page: its reader is going there or calling. Directions and the phone, the facility template's own actions.
RESEARCHCare team cards carry the team's own logo, and no photo yet

Keep the designer's text card and put each team's own lockup (Air Care, Winnie Palmer Hospital, Women's Institute, Orlando Health Children's) in its logo slot. Add a photo band only when every team on the page has a real photo of its own people or place.

  • Eyetracking: people skip decorative and stock images and study images that carry information. Real staff portraits drew 10 percent more viewing time than the bios beside them, though the bios took 316 percent more space; uninformative thumbnails drew about 0.9 fixations each against 4.4 on the text.
  • Card guidance across design systems: images help a reader scan a set of cards when each one is distinct, and hurt when they repeat or say nothing the title does not; text-only cards are a standard variant.
  • Healthcare: every source found points the same way, toward real photos of the actual staff and places over stock, but no rigorous study measures the effect on booking.
  • Measured on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: two of the eight teams have a real photo of their own (the Air Care helicopter, the Children's pavilion); the other six pages use stock tiles. A grid with photos on two cards of eight reads as broken, so the lockup, which every team has, does the recognizing.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the sections below. Nothing is supplied.

Getting Here

This office is in downtown Orlando, on Lucerne Terrace. The address is 1012 Lucerne Terrace, Orlando, FL 32806.

Call ahead at (407) 423-1039 to book your visit, and ask the team for parking and entrance directions when you do.

Bring your travel plans with you: the countries and cities you will visit, your dates, and any vaccine records you have, so the visit can start from what you already have.

About this module

Library module · Written copy with bold lead-ins: the way to this office, which no other page can say.

Map and Directions

Map placeholder1
Category Name
View As List
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
TRAVEL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASESOrlando Health Medical Group, Downtown Orlando
1012 Lucerne Terrace, Orlando, FL 32806Open [Hours, from the record](407) 423-1039
Directions
Learn More
About this module

Template module · Fills itself: the map, with this office's card, from the location record. Nothing is supplied.

What This Location Offers

What a travel visit at this office covers.

A Plan for Your Trip
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Advice for Staying Well Abroad

Your clinician reviews where you are going, how long you will stay and what you will be doing, and gives you advice for staying well where you are going.

Vaccines for Your Destination
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Routine and Travel Vaccines in One Visit

Routine vaccines are brought up to date and the vaccines your trip calls for are given, such as typhoid, rabies or yellow fever, based on your itinerary.

Medicine to Take With You
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Prescriptions for Malaria and Travelers' Diarrhea

If your trip calls for it, you leave with prescriptions to prevent malaria or to treat travelers' diarrhea while you are away.

About this module

Library module · The Marketer's Playground (§11.9): one introduction, then rows, each with a photograph, a headline and a short paragraph. Kim on the call: anything special about this location goes here, with an optional button, such as a travel guide to download. The rows below are true of every travel visit; this office's own row replaces or joins them once Kevin names what is different here. Prompts for the marketer, never to publish as written: a destination guide to download · a group-trip day for a school or mission team · a note for team members.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I book a travel visit here?

Call (407) 423-1039. Tell the team you are planning a trip abroad so they book a travel consultation rather than a standard visit.

How early should I come in?

Four to six weeks before you leave is best, because some vaccines take time to work or come in more than one dose. If you are leaving sooner, call anyway.

What should I bring?

Your itinerary, your vaccine records, a list of the medicines you take and your insurance card.

About this module

Template module · Written copy. On an office page the block answers questions about this office. Questions about travel visits everywhere are on the Travel Medicine program page.

Infectious Diseases

The downtown Orlando office on Lucerne Terrace sees patients for travel visits and infectious disease care.

Learn More About Infectious Diseases

View All Service Lines

About this module

Template module · Fills itself under the template's own heading, three tabs of cards. Nothing is written on this page. Services leads with Infectious Diseases, linking up to /services/infectious-diseases.

Conditions

Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Learn More About Malaria
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most...

Learn More About Travelers' Diarrhea
Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually...

Learn More About Altitude Sickness

View All Conditions

Treatments

Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health,...

Learn More About Travel Medicine Consultation
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid,...

Learn More About Travel Vaccines

View All Treatments

Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases

at Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health, Wesley Chapel
2740 Windguard Circle, Suite 101, Wesley Chapel, FL 33544
Office phone: (813) 778-0288
Open weekdays, by appointment
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the office's location record: the page heading, "at" and the practice, the address, the phone, Click for Directions and Click to Call, over a photograph of the building. The live record calls this office "Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health Infectious Diseases and Wound Care, Wesley Chapel".

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Click for Directions · Click to Call. An office page: its reader is going there or calling. Directions and the phone, the facility template's own actions.
RESEARCHCare team cards carry the team's own logo, and no photo yet

Keep the designer's text card and put each team's own lockup (Air Care, Winnie Palmer Hospital, Women's Institute, Orlando Health Children's) in its logo slot. Add a photo band only when every team on the page has a real photo of its own people or place.

  • Eyetracking: people skip decorative and stock images and study images that carry information. Real staff portraits drew 10 percent more viewing time than the bios beside them, though the bios took 316 percent more space; uninformative thumbnails drew about 0.9 fixations each against 4.4 on the text.
  • Card guidance across design systems: images help a reader scan a set of cards when each one is distinct, and hurt when they repeat or say nothing the title does not; text-only cards are a standard variant.
  • Healthcare: every source found points the same way, toward real photos of the actual staff and places over stock, but no rigorous study measures the effect on booking.
  • Measured on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: two of the eight teams have a real photo of their own (the Air Care helicopter, the Children's pavilion); the other six pages use stock tiles. A grid with photos on two cards of eight reads as broken, so the lockup, which every team has, does the recognizing.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the sections below. Nothing is supplied.

Getting Here

This office is in Pasco County, in Wesley Chapel. The address is 2740 Windguard Circle, Suite 101, Wesley Chapel, FL 33544.

Call ahead at (813) 778-0288 to book your visit, and ask the team for parking and entrance directions when you do.

Bring your travel plans with you: the countries and cities you will visit, your dates, and any vaccine records you have, so the visit can start from what you already have.

About this module

Library module · Written copy with bold lead-ins: the way to this office, which no other page can say.

Map and Directions

Map placeholder1
Category Name
View As List
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TRAVEL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASESFlorida Medical Clinic Orlando Health, Wesley Chapel
2740 Windguard Circle, Suite 101, Wesley Chapel, FL 33544Open [Hours, from the record](813) 778-0288
Directions
Learn More
About this module

Template module · Fills itself: the map, with this office's card, from the location record. Nothing is supplied.

What This Location Offers

What a travel visit at this office covers.

A Plan for Your Trip
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Advice for Staying Well Abroad

Your clinician reviews where you are going, how long you will stay and what you will be doing, and gives you advice for staying well where you are going.

Vaccines for Your Destination
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Routine and Travel Vaccines in One Visit

Routine vaccines are brought up to date and the vaccines your trip calls for are given, such as typhoid, rabies or yellow fever, based on your itinerary.

Medicine to Take With You
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Prescriptions for Malaria and Travelers' Diarrhea

If your trip calls for it, you leave with prescriptions to prevent malaria or to treat travelers' diarrhea while you are away.

Lung Care in the Same Suite
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Lung Specialists in the Same Building

Florida Medical Clinic lung specialists share this suite, so if you have asthma or another lung condition you can see both teams in the same building.

About this module

Library module · The Marketer's Playground (§11.9): one introduction, then rows, each with a photograph, a headline and a short paragraph. Kim on the call: anything special about this location goes here, with an optional button, such as a travel guide to download. The rows below are true of every travel visit; this office's own row replaces or joins them once Kevin names what is different here. Prompts for the marketer, never to publish as written: a destination guide to download · a group-trip day for a school or mission team · a note for team members.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I book a travel visit here?

Call (813) 778-0288. Tell the team you are planning a trip abroad so they book a travel consultation rather than a standard visit.

How early should I come in?

Four to six weeks before you leave is best, because some vaccines take time to work or come in more than one dose. If you are leaving sooner, call anyway.

What should I bring?

Your itinerary, your vaccine records, a list of the medicines you take and your insurance card.

About this module

Template module · Written copy. On an office page the block answers questions about this office. Questions about travel visits everywhere are on the Travel Medicine program page.

Infectious Diseases

Florida Medical Clinic infectious disease doctors see patients at this Wesley Chapel office.

Learn More About Infectious Diseases
Pulmonary and Critical Care

Lung and sleep specialists share this Wesley Chapel suite.

Learn More About Pulmonary and Critical Care

View All Service Lines

About this module

Template module · Fills itself under the template's own heading, three tabs of cards. Nothing is written on this page. Services leads with Infectious Diseases, linking up to /services/infectious-diseases.

Conditions

Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Learn More About Malaria
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most...

Learn More About Travelers' Diarrhea
Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually...

Learn More About Altitude Sickness

View All Conditions

Treatments

Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health,...

Learn More About Travel Medicine Consultation
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid,...

Learn More About Travel Vaccines

View All Treatments

Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases

at Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health, Zephyrhills
36819 Eiland Blvd., Suite 101, Zephyrhills, FL 33542
Office phone: (813) 778-0408
Open weekdays, by appointment
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the office's location record: the page heading, "at" and the practice, the address, the phone, Click for Directions and Click to Call, over a photograph of the building. The live record calls this office "Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health Infectious Diseases and Wound Care, Zephyrhills".

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Click for Directions · Click to Call. An office page: its reader is going there or calling. Directions and the phone, the facility template's own actions.
RESEARCHCare team cards carry the team's own logo, and no photo yet

Keep the designer's text card and put each team's own lockup (Air Care, Winnie Palmer Hospital, Women's Institute, Orlando Health Children's) in its logo slot. Add a photo band only when every team on the page has a real photo of its own people or place.

  • Eyetracking: people skip decorative and stock images and study images that carry information. Real staff portraits drew 10 percent more viewing time than the bios beside them, though the bios took 316 percent more space; uninformative thumbnails drew about 0.9 fixations each against 4.4 on the text.
  • Card guidance across design systems: images help a reader scan a set of cards when each one is distinct, and hurt when they repeat or say nothing the title does not; text-only cards are a standard variant.
  • Healthcare: every source found points the same way, toward real photos of the actual staff and places over stock, but no rigorous study measures the effect on booking.
  • Measured on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: two of the eight teams have a real photo of their own (the Air Care helicopter, the Children's pavilion); the other six pages use stock tiles. A grid with photos on two cards of eight reads as broken, so the lockup, which every team has, does the recognizing.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the sections below. Nothing is supplied.

Getting Here

This office is in Zephyrhills, just off Highway 301. The address is 36819 Eiland Blvd., Suite 101, Zephyrhills, FL 33542.

Call ahead at (813) 778-0408 to book your visit, and ask the team for parking and entrance directions when you do.

Bring your travel plans with you: the countries and cities you will visit, your dates, and any vaccine records you have, so the visit can start from what you already have.

About this module

Library module · Written copy with bold lead-ins: the way to this office, which no other page can say.

Map and Directions

Map placeholder1
Category Name
View As List
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
TRAVEL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASESFlorida Medical Clinic Orlando Health, Zephyrhills
36819 Eiland Blvd., Suite 101, Zephyrhills, FL 33542Open [Hours, from the record](813) 778-0408
Directions
Learn More
About this module

Template module · Fills itself: the map, with this office's card, from the location record. Nothing is supplied.

What This Location Offers

What a travel visit at this office covers.

A Plan for Your Trip
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Advice for Staying Well Abroad

Your clinician reviews where you are going, how long you will stay and what you will be doing, and gives you advice for staying well where you are going.

Vaccines for Your Destination
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Routine and Travel Vaccines in One Visit

Routine vaccines are brought up to date and the vaccines your trip calls for are given, such as typhoid, rabies or yellow fever, based on your itinerary.

Medicine to Take With You
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Prescriptions for Malaria and Travelers' Diarrhea

If your trip calls for it, you leave with prescriptions to prevent malaria or to treat travelers' diarrhea while you are away.

Tropical and Travel Medicine
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Care Before Your Trip and After You Come Home

The infectious disease team here includes a doctor whose focus covers tropical and travel-related medicine: planning a trip with the right vaccines and precautions, and caring for infections picked up abroad.

About this module

Library module · The Marketer's Playground (§11.9): one introduction, then rows, each with a photograph, a headline and a short paragraph. Kim on the call: anything special about this location goes here, with an optional button, such as a travel guide to download. The rows below are true of every travel visit; this office's own row replaces or joins them once Kevin names what is different here. Prompts for the marketer, never to publish as written: a destination guide to download · a group-trip day for a school or mission team · a note for team members.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I book a travel visit here?

Call (813) 778-0408. Tell the team you are planning a trip abroad so they book a travel consultation rather than a standard visit.

How early should I come in?

Four to six weeks before you leave is best, because some vaccines take time to work or come in more than one dose. If you are leaving sooner, call anyway.

What should I bring?

Your itinerary, your vaccine records, a list of the medicines you take and your insurance card.

About this module

Template module · Written copy. On an office page the block answers questions about this office. Questions about travel visits everywhere are on the Travel Medicine program page.

Infectious Diseases

Florida Medical Clinic infectious disease care in Zephyrhills, including tropical and travel-related medicine.

Learn More About Infectious Diseases

View All Service Lines

About this module

Template module · Fills itself under the template's own heading, three tabs of cards. Nothing is written on this page. Services leads with Infectious Diseases, linking up to /services/infectious-diseases.

Conditions

Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Learn More About Malaria
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most...

Learn More About Travelers' Diarrhea
Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually...

Learn More About Altitude Sickness

View All Conditions

Treatments

Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health,...

Learn More About Travel Medicine Consultation
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid,...

Learn More About Travel Vaccines

View All Treatments

Orlando Health Medical Group Infectious Diseases

Infectious disease physicians and nurse practitioners caring for adults with infections that are complex, long lasting or hard to treat, at five offices across Central Florida and in the hospital. We also help people prepare for trips abroad.

Medically Reviewed Content
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About this module

Template module · Written copy, one paragraph under the practice name. It is the first thing anyone reads and the only part a visitor from search is guaranteed to see, so it has to stand on its own.

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Request an Appointment. The practice books its own visits; one action.
RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

Who We Are

Many of the people who come to us were sent by their own doctor, with an infection that keeps coming back, resists the usual medicines, or follows surgery, cancer treatment or a transplant. Others come on their own, getting ready for a trip abroad. Our specialists find the cause and choose the treatment that clears it.

Every physician here is board-certified and fellowship-trained in infectious diseases and treats complex conditions such as hepatitis, pneumonia, meningitis and HIV. Our physicians and nurse practitioners see you in our offices and in the hospital, and our physicians direct the Orlando Health infectious disease fellowship.

About this module

Template module · Written copy: two short paragraphs under Who We Are, then THE FEATURES, three to five cards each with an image, a title, a blurb and a link. ⛔ The cards hold what is special, timely or unique about this practice and nothing another module or page owns: no treatments, no conditions, no credentials, no offices (C13). Travel care is for residents going abroad (the line's standing bar). The wording about physicians and nurse practitioners in the office and in the hospital comes from the line page's record of the live practice page; the live practice page could not be fetched again this session, so it needs one check against it.

Our Doctors

Type a city or zip code
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[n] doctors foundMany doctors have multiple practice locations. View the doctor's profile for a complete list of their locationsSort By: A to Z
[Doctor Name 1], MD Infectious DiseasesOH Medical Group Member[Location]
[Address Line]
[City], FL [Zip]
000-000-0000Online Scheduling Available
[Doctor Name 2], MD Infectious DiseasesOH Medical Group Member[Location]
[Address Line]
[City], FL [Zip]
000-000-0000Online Scheduling Available
[Doctor Name 3], MD Infectious DiseasesOH Medical Group Member[Location]
[Address Line]
[City], FL [Zip]
000-000-0000Online Scheduling Available
123›
About this module

Template module · Fills itself from the physician records, narrowed to this practice. Each clinician shows with their photo, credentials, the offices they work from, languages and whether they are accepting new patients. Nothing is supplied for this module.

Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library

Insurances We Accept

[The plans this team accepts, from its record]

View Hospital Based Insurance
View Physician Based Insurance
About this module

Template module · Fills itself. The list of plans this practice accepts, searchable and filtered by letter, with the standing note that a patient should check coverage with their own insurer.

Questions People Ask Us

Are you accepting new patients?

Availability differs by clinician and by office, and it changes, so the team list above shows who is open at the moment. If the person you wanted is not taking new patients, ask to be seen by a colleague.

Do I need a referral?

Many patients come because their doctor sent them, and some insurance plans require a referral for infectious disease care, so call your insurer with the practice name before your first visit. For a travel visit, call (407) 423-1039 and tell the team you are planning a trip abroad.

Do you take my insurance?

The list above is the plans this practice accepts. Coverage also depends on your own plan, so call your insurer with the practice name before your first visit.

What happens at my first visit here?

We go through your symptoms, your history, the medicines you take and anything that has already been tried, and any records your doctor sends ahead help us start from what is known. Bring your medication list, recent test results and any imaging. For a travel visit, bring your itinerary, your vaccine records and your insurance card.

If I am in the hospital, will you see me there?

Yes. Our specialists care for patients at the bedside as well as in the office, and your hospital team can ask us to see you.

About this module

Template module · Written copy. On a care team page the block answers access questions about this practice, and nothing else. What an infectious disease specialist is and what the specialty treats are answered once on the Infectious Diseases page, travel visits on the Travel Medicine page, and parking and entrances on each building's page, so nothing is answered twice.

Awards and Accreditations

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[Award logo 1]
[Award logo 2]
[Award logo 3]
[Award logo 4]
[Award logo 5]
›

Patient Resources

[Patient Resource 01][One line on what it is]Download Resource
[Patient Resource 02][One line on what it is]Download Resource
[Patient Resource 03][One line on what it is]Download Resource
[Patient Resource 04][One line on what it is]Download Resource

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About this module

Template modules · All fill themselves. The awards this practice's clinicians hold, patient testimonials, downloadable forms and this line's articles.

Ready to Get Started?

Request an appointment and the team will call you to schedule.

Request an Appointment
Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health

Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health Infectious Diseases and Wound Care

Physicians and advanced practice nurses in Wesley Chapel and Zephyrhills who diagnose and treat infections, including fevers of unknown origin, HIV, infections after an organ transplant and infections picked up in the hospital. Our Zephyrhills team also helps people plan for trips abroad.

Medically Reviewed Content
Placeholder from the Orlando Health image library
About this module

Template module · Written copy, one paragraph under the practice name. It is the first thing anyone reads and the only part a visitor from search is guaranteed to see, so it has to stand on its own.

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Request an Appointment. Florida Medical Clinic books its own visits; one action.
RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

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MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

Who We Are

We provide consultations and treatment for people with proven or suspected infections, and we work with your primary care doctor so everyone caring for you has the same picture. Helping you heal is our priority. This practice is part of Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health and serves Pasco County and the Tampa Bay area.

Wound care and hyperbaric medicine are provided through the Center for Wound Healing in Zephyrhills, which the team will direct you to.

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Template module · Written copy: two short paragraphs under Who We Are, then THE FEATURES, three to five cards each with an image, a title, a blurb and a link. ⛔ The cards hold what is special, timely or unique about this practice and nothing another module or page owns: no treatments, no conditions, no credentials, no offices (C13). The practice's wound care location is named in one sentence under Who We Are with no claim beyond what the live page says. Travel care is for residents going abroad (the line's standing bar). The live practice page lists four physicians and two advanced practice nurses, and the doctors module fills itself from the records.

Our Doctors

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[Address Line]
[City], FL [Zip]
000-000-0000Online Scheduling Available
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Insurances We Accept

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Template module · Fills itself. The list of plans this practice accepts, searchable and filtered by letter, with the standing note that a patient should check coverage with their own insurer.

Questions People Ask Us

Are you accepting new patients?

Availability differs by clinician, and it changes, so the team list above shows who is open at the moment. If the person you wanted is not taking new patients, ask to be seen by a colleague.

Do I need a referral?

Many patients come because their doctor sent them, and some insurance plans require a referral for infectious disease care, so call your insurer with the practice name before your first visit. To plan a trip abroad, call the Zephyrhills clinic at (813) 778-0408 and tell the team you are planning travel.

Do you take my insurance?

The list above is the plans this practice accepts. Coverage also depends on your own plan, so call your insurer with the practice name before your first visit.

What happens at my first visit here?

We go through your symptoms, your history, the medicines you take and anything that has already been tried, and any records your doctor sends ahead help us start from what is known. Bring your medication list, recent test results and any imaging. For a travel visit, bring your itinerary, your vaccine records and your insurance card.

Which clinic do I call?

Call the Wesley Chapel clinic at (813) 778-0288 or the Zephyrhills clinic at (813) 778-0408. Either team can book your visit.

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Template module · Written copy. On a care team page the block answers access questions about this practice, and nothing else. What an infectious disease specialist is and what the specialty treats are answered once on the Infectious Diseases page, travel visits on the Travel Medicine page, and parking and entrances on each building's page, so nothing is answered twice.

Awards and Accreditations

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Patient Resources

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Template modules · All fill themselves. The awards this practice's clinicians hold, patient testimonials, downloadable forms and this line's articles.

Ready to Get Started?

Request an appointment and the team will call you to schedule.

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Travel Medicine

Planning a trip abroad? A travel visit gets you the vaccines, medicines and advice your destination calls for. Book 4 to 6 weeks before you leave, and call us even if your trip is sooner.

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About this module

Template module · Written copy (ours, 187 characters). Kevin's headline, "Stay Healthy. Travel Confidently.", becomes the Overview's heading; the hero says who it is for and when to book. The buttons are Call 407-423-1039 and Find a Location (the choices table).

Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Call 407-423-1039 · Find a Location. Kevin's draft books by phone at (407) 423-1039 and asks for a visit 4 to 6 weeks out; the second door is the nearest office, since the program lists places rather than doctors (the call).
RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGThe Marketer's Playground features what the marketer wants to highlight

The feature accordion is a module, or a set of them, on any page type, for what the marketing team wants to feature about how they market the line or place: a program, a class, an event, parking or language access, a community program, a timely change, a real choice such as planning a high-risk birth. Each row: a headline, a short paragraph, a 5:4 photo, zero, one or two buttons. A row can point to a page that exists; it never repeats a module on the same page.

  • The designer's frames show the row with no button, one button and two buttons.
  • A high-risk birth is the one real choice on the neonatal line, so it is the line page's first row.

Decided 2026-10-20

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Stay Healthy and Travel With Confidence

Travel abroad can bring new climates, new foods and diseases that are rare at home, including some that vaccines prevent and that are still common in other parts of the world. A little preparation before you go lets you enjoy your trip with fewer worries.

Our travel medicine team looks at where you are going and what you will be doing there, then makes sure you leave protected. The visits are held in our infectious diseases offices across Central Florida and the Tampa Bay area. Read about the travel visit and travel vaccines.

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Template module · Written block (§11.7). Kevin's opening and his risk list, in two paragraphs.

What Your Travel Visit Covers

Your trip and your health. We review your destinations, how long you will stay, how you will travel and what you plan to do, along with your medical history and the medicines you take.

The risks where you are going. You learn the health and safety risks for your destination, from food and water to insects, altitude and injury, and how to lower each one.

The right vaccines. We bring routine vaccines up to date and give the vaccines your destination calls for, such as typhoid, rabies, chikungunya and yellow fever, a specialty vaccine that can be hard to find.

Medicine to take with you. When your trip calls for it, you leave with prescriptions to prevent illness, such as medicine against malaria, or to treat it while you are away, such as travelers' diarrhea.

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Template module · Written sections with bold lead-ins (the program template). Kevin's ten visit items, grouped into four.

Who We See Before They Go

Students Studying or Volunteering Abroad
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Plan Your Vaccines When You Plan the Trip

A semester abroad, a summer program or a service trip often needs vaccines months ahead. Plan your visit when you plan your trip.

Families Traveling With Children
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Doses and Advice Sized for Every Age

Children need vaccines and medicine doses sized for their age. Our pediatric infectious disease specialists see the youngest travelers.

Mission and Service Trips
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Help for Groups Heading to Rural Areas

Rural areas and long stays bring their own risks. We help your group prepare, from vaccines to safe water.

Traveling for Work
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Protection for Frequent and Last-minute Trips

Frequent and last-minute business travelers can stay protected trip after trip. Call even if you leave soon. Button: Call 407-423-1039 → #call

About this module

Library module · The feature accordion (§11.9: 2 to 5 rows). Kim on the call: this is the marketing surface, the different scenarios and who the program applies to. The rows are the audiences the call named: students, families, mission and service trips, work travel. The team members row was removed (Kim, 2026-10-29); team members reach the program through internal channels. Prompts for the marketer, never to publish as written: a destination guide to download · a back-to-school reminder for study abroad · a group day for a school or church trip.

Questions People Ask Us

When should I book my travel visit?

Four to six weeks before you leave is best, because some vaccines need time to work or come in more than one dose. If your trip is sooner, call anyway; we gladly see last-minute travelers.

Which vaccines do I need?

It depends on where you are going, how long you will stay and what you will do there. Your visit starts with your itinerary and ends with a plan made for your trip.

Do you have the yellow fever vaccine?

Yes. Yellow fever vaccine is a specialty vaccine that can be hard to find, and some countries require proof of it to enter. Call to book, and ask which office has it in stock.

What should I bring?

Your itinerary, any vaccine records you have, a list of the medicines you take and your insurance card.

Is this for people visiting Orlando?

No. Travel medicine prepares people who live here for trips abroad. Visitors who get sick while they are here can use any Orlando Health urgent care or emergency room.

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Template module · Written copy. Kevin's timing and last-minute line, and the practical questions a traveler asks first.

Infectious Diseases

The travel medicine visits are given by the infectious diseases practices, in their own offices.

Learn More About Infectious Diseases
Primary Care

Primary care keeps your routine vaccines current and can give a checkup before a long trip.

Learn More About Primary Care
Pediatrics

Children traveling abroad need vaccines and advice sized for their age, and pediatric specialists see the youngest travelers.

Learn More About Pediatrics
Pregnancy and Birth

Some travel vaccines and malaria medicines are not used in pregnancy, so plan your trip with your obstetric care team too.

Learn More About Pregnancy and Birth

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Fills itself from the records. A program belongs to no single service line (Kim, 2026-10-20), so the cards are the program's own assortment: the lines it works with and the library pages tied to its subject, never one line's lists.

Conditions

Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the...

Learn More About Malaria
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most...

Learn More About Travelers' Diarrhea
Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually...

Learn More About Altitude Sickness

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Treatments

Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health,...

Learn More About Travel Medicine Consultation
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid,...

Learn More About Travel Vaccines

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Ready to Plan Your Trip?

Call to book your travel consultation, ideally 4 to 6 weeks before you leave.

Call 407-423-1039

Programs

The programs on this line, each bringing a team together around one condition, one approach to care or one group of patients. Each page explains who it is for, what it offers and where.

Search by First Letter

Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually brings a headache and nausea that ease with rest, and it can largely be prevented. Orlando Health Travel Medicine helps you plan a safe ascent.

Learn More
Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Prescription medicine and bite protection prevent most cases, and any fever after travel needs prompt testing. Orlando Health travel medicine and infectious disease specialists can help.

Learn More
Travel Medicine

Vaccines, medicines and a plan for staying well on your trip abroad, at infectious diseases offices across Central Florida.

Learn More
Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health, gives the vaccines you need, prescribes medicines to prevent or treat travel illness, and sends you home with a plan for staying well on the road.

Learn More
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid, yellow fever, hepatitis A and rabies. Which ones you need depends on your destination, your plans and your health, and some take weeks to work, so plan ahead.

Learn More
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most cases ease within a few days. A visit before you leave helps you lower the risk and pack what you need to treat it. Orlando Health infectious disease specialists can help.

Learn More

Conditions

The illnesses travelers most often meet abroad, and what a travel medicine visit does to prevent them. Each page explains the signs, how it spreads and what to do if you get sick on your trip or after you come home.

Search by First Letter

Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness is the body's reaction to thinner air at high elevations, most often above about 8,000 feet. It usually brings a headache and nausea that ease with rest, and it can largely be prevented. Orlando Health Travel Medicine helps you plan a safe ascent.

Learn More
Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Prescription medicine and bite protection prevent most cases, and any fever after travel needs prompt testing. Orlando Health travel medicine and infectious disease specialists can help.

Learn More
Travel Medicine

Vaccines, medicines and a plan for staying well on your trip abroad, at infectious diseases offices across Central Florida.

Learn More
Travel Medicine Consultation

A travel medicine consultation is a visit before a trip abroad. A specialist reviews where you are going and your health, gives the vaccines you need, prescribes medicines to prevent or treat travel illness, and sends you home with a plan for staying well on the road.

Learn More
Travel Vaccines

Vaccines given before a trip abroad to protect you from illnesses that are more common where you are going, such as typhoid, yellow fever, hepatitis A and rabies. Which ones you need depends on your destination, your plans and your health, and some take weeks to work, so plan ahead.

Learn More
Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most cases ease within a few days. A visit before you leave helps you lower the risk and pack what you need to treat it. Orlando Health infectious disease specialists can help.

Learn More

Malaria

Malaria is a serious illness caused by a parasite that mosquitoes spread in parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Prescription medicine and bite protection prevent most cases, and any fever after travel needs prompt testing. Orlando Health travel medicine and infectious disease specialists can help.

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Research and Evidence for This Page

This page's buttons: Learn About Travel Medicine · When to Get Help Now. Read by a traveler before the trip, or by someone already sick: the program for prevention, and When to Get Help Now for the sick reader.
RULINGEvery page's buttons are chosen for the reader who lands on it

A page shows zero, one or two buttons, each reasoned from the moment its reader is in. Leads go where a real decision exists (planning a birth, a diagnosis in pregnancy, a failed screen, a follow-up specialist, a pediatrician for a healthy newborn). A page read by a parent whose baby is in a NICU now offers the page's own help and the support every NICU family gets, never a sales button. No button anywhere asks anyone to choose a NICU.

  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
  • Two slots are a ceiling, never a quota: a filler button beside a page's one real action comes off.

Decided 2026-10-20

RULINGPlain words, and no NICU alarm for parents of full-term babies

Labels, closing bands and the line page's opening are factual, with no warmth words and no severity words. A page a healthy newborn's parent reads (jaundice, a glucose check, a hearing screen) never leads with the NICU or closes on a NICU band; nursery care has its own closing.

  • Parents of NICU babies recoil from sweet or sentimental copy.
  • Parents of full-term babies are frightened by NICU detail, and most newborns never need one: neonatal care is five settings, the delivery room, the nursery, the Level II and the Level III and IV NICUs, and follow-up, and the NICU is two of them.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDRelated services are single service lines, in the designer's Services tab

Related services render as the Services tab of the designer's tabs module, as he drew them: six cards on a line page, each one service line on the ruled list, never two specialties under one name, each with one sentence on how that line joins a newborn's care.

  • The designer's service line and location frames show Services, Conditions and Treatments as three tabs, the Services tab holding six single-line cards with a sentence each.
  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDThe page is set in Lufga, the typeface Orlando Health uses, at its three weights

Every page uses Lufga, loaded from orlandohealth.com, at 400, 500 and 700 only. Headings 700, the hero paragraph 500, body and buttons 400.

  • Read on orlandohealth.com, 2026-10-20: the site loads Lufga in three files, Regular 400, Medium 500 and Bold 700, and sets its headings at 700.
  • The designer's frames are set in the same face; an earlier build used a stand-in, which is why its weights read differently beside his frames.

Sources

Decided 2026-10-20

MEASUREDButtons are the designer's slim pills, with an icon in the hero

Pills are about 2.4 times their label tall, regular weight, with no border on solid pills; the two hero pills are equal width across the paragraph, each led by an ink icon chosen from its label. The facility hero's pills carry no icon.

  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

Decided 2026-10-20

RESEARCHBreadcrumbs show a page's place in the site; a back link and the line card give the way back

A library page's breadcrumbs follow its address (Home, Health Library, Conditions, the page), because one condition page serves every line that treats it. The way back to the line comes from two other places: the first card in the page's Services tab is the line itself, always; and a visitor who arrived from a line, unit, team or program page also sees a Back link at the right of the crumb bar, naming that page.

  • Breadcrumbs should show a page's place in the site's hierarchy, never the visitor's history; history trails grow long and repetitive and do nothing for a visitor who arrives from search.
  • A page with more than one parent shows one canonical trail for everyone, which keeps the page's signal to search engines consistent.
  • A separate link back to where the visitor came from is a common pattern (a store's Back to Results) and leaves the canonical trail untouched.
  • Tested in the demo: a parent reading condition pages could not find the way back to the Neonatal Care page.

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Decided 2026-10-21

Planning a trip to see family in West Africa, serve on a mission in Haiti or study for a semester in India brings a long list of things to arrange. If malaria is common where you are going, put prevention near the top of that list. Malaria is serious, and it is largely preventable with the right medicine and a few daily habits.

Malaria is an infection of the blood caused by a tiny parasite. It spreads through the bite of an infected mosquito and is common across much of Africa and in parts of Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific. About 2,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with malaria each year, nearly all of them after travel.

Malaria can be prevented, and when it is found early it can be cured. Two steps protect you most: taking prescription preventive medicine exactly as directed, and getting tested quickly for any fever during your trip or in the year after you come home.

What Is Malaria?

Malaria is caused by Plasmodium parasites. After an infected mosquito bites, the parasites multiply in the liver, then infect red blood cells. Each time a wave of infected cells bursts, it brings fever, chills and sweats that can come and go.

Plasmodium falciparum, the most common type in Africa, causes most severe illness and can turn dangerous quickly. Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium ovale can rest in the liver for months and then cause a relapse long after the trip. With prompt diagnosis and treatment, most people recover completely.

Symptoms of Malaria

Symptoms usually begin one to four weeks after the bite, and some types appear months after you come home. Common symptoms include:

  • Fever, which may come and go.
  • Shaking chills and sweats.
  • Headache, muscle aches and tiredness.
  • Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.

Early malaria can feel like the flu. Any fever during your trip or in the year after you return from a malaria area is an emergency until a malaria test says otherwise, and occasionally illness begins even later. Most cases appear in the first three months. Tell the staff where you traveled, even if you took preventive medicine.

When to Get Help Now

Call 911 or go to the emergency department for:

  • Confusion, a seizure or being hard to wake.
  • Trouble breathing, or fast, labored breathing.
  • Fainting or feeling about to faint.
  • Extreme weakness, such as being unable to stand.
  • Fever with yellowing of the skin or eyes, or with dark or bloody urine.
  • Very little urine, or unusual bleeding or bruising.
  • A fever during a trip to a country where malaria is common, or in the year after you come home, is an emergency: go to the emergency department the same day without waiting for an appointment, say where you traveled and ask to be tested for malaria, even if you took your preventive medicine. The blood test has to be read within hours, and a doctor's office usually cannot do that.

Call rather than driving; care begins when paramedics arrive.

Call your care team the same day, or go to urgent care if you cannot be seen that day, for:

  • Chills, sweats, headache, muscle aches or vomiting after a trip to a malaria area with no fever, even when they come and go.

If you get sick during your trip, see a doctor there that day.

When you cannot tell which list you are in, call and describe what is happening; if nobody can be reached and it looks like the first list, go.

Causes of Malaria

Anopheles mosquitoes spread the parasite, picking it up from an infected person and passing it on with later bites. They bite mainly between dusk and dawn.

Risk Factors for Malaria

Where Is Malaria Common?

Malaria is found in large parts of Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Central and South America, parts of the Caribbean including Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the South Pacific and parts of the Middle East. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest risk. Risk varies within a country and by season, so advice depends on your exact itinerary.

Who Is at Higher Risk?

  • People visiting family in the country where they grew up. The partial protection from growing up with malaria fades quickly after moving away, and these travelers make up a large share of cases in the United States.
  • Long stays, rural travel and evenings outdoors.
  • Missed doses of preventive medicine, or stopping it too soon after coming home.

Pregnant women, young children, older adults, people without a spleen and people with a weakened immune system are more likely to become severely ill.

Prevention of Malaria

Most malaria in travelers can be prevented with two steps used together.

Preventive Medicine

The choice of preventive medicine depends on your destination, since some regions have parasites that resist certain medicines, and on your health, other medicines, age and pregnancy. Options include atovaquone-proguanil, doxycycline, mefloquine, tafenoquine, primaquine and, where it still works, chloroquine. Primaquine and tafenoquine need a G6PD blood test first.

Every schedule starts before you arrive, continues through your trip and keeps going after you leave, for one to four weeks depending on the medicine. Buy your medicine in the United States, since fake antimalarial medicines are sold in some countries.

A travel medicine consultation 4 to 6 weeks before departure leaves time to start on schedule, and last-minute travelers can still be helped.

Mosquito Bite Protection

  • Use an EPA-registered repellent with DEET, picaridin, IR3535, oil of lemon eucalyptus, PMD or 2-undecanone. Do not use oil of lemon eucalyptus or PMD on children under 3.
  • Wear long sleeves and long pants, and treat clothing and gear with permethrin, which goes on fabric, never on skin.
  • Sleep in a screened or air-conditioned room, or under an insecticide-treated bed net.

There is no malaria vaccine available for travelers in the United States. Your visit is still a good time to get travel vaccines for other diseases on your route, such as typhoid and yellow fever.

If you are pregnant, talk with your doctor before booking a trip to a malaria area, since malaria is more dangerous in pregnancy. Children need protection too, with doses set by weight.

Diagnosis of Malaria

Malaria is diagnosed with a blood test. Tell the doctor every country you visited in the past year and whether you took preventive medicine.

  • Blood smear. A drop of blood examined under a microscope to find the parasite, identify its type and measure how many red blood cells are infected.
  • Rapid test. A quick test for parasite proteins, confirmed by a blood smear.
  • PCR test. A lab test that confirms the exact type of parasite.

Parasites can be too few to see at first, so when malaria is still suspected after a negative smear, the smear is repeated every 12 to 24 hours for a total of three tests. Other blood tests look for signs of severe illness.

Treatment Options for Malaria

Malaria is curable, and treatment works best when it starts early. The plan depends on the type of parasite, how sick you are, where you were infected and whether you are pregnant.

Medicines

Malaria found before it turns severe is treated with a course of pills, such as artemether-lumefantrine or atovaquone-proguanil. People with falciparum malaria are usually admitted to the hospital at first so the care team can watch the infection clear. For vivax and ovale malaria, a second medicine, primaquine or tafenoquine, clears the parasites resting in the liver and prevents relapse.

Hospital Care for Severe Malaria

Severe malaria is treated in the hospital, often in intensive care, with artesunate given through a vein, followed by a full course of pills.

After Treatment

Finish every dose and keep your follow-up visits. Your plan is made with your care team.

When to Talk to Your Care Team

Talk with your care team as soon as you book travel to a malaria area, and bring your itinerary and medicine list. Call if side effects make it hard to keep taking your preventive medicine or if you missed doses. In the year after your trip, mention your travel at every medical visit.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I catch malaria from someone who has it?

Not through everyday contact. Malaria spreads through mosquito bites, and only rarely through blood or from a mother to her baby.

I grew up in a country with malaria. Do I still need preventive medicine?

Yes. Any partial protection fades after living away, and travelers visiting family are among those most often diagnosed.

Can I get malaria even if I took my preventive medicine?

It is uncommon, and more likely if doses were missed. Any fever after your trip needs a malaria test.

Is there a malaria vaccine for travelers?

Not in the United States. Travelers rely on preventive medicine and mosquito bite protection together.

Can malaria come back months after treatment?

Vivax and ovale malaria can relapse from parasites resting in the liver. A second medicine prevents that.

Who Treats It and Where

Several Orlando Health teams share malaria prevention and care.

  • Travel Medicine program. Travel visits are held in our infectious diseases offices, where specialists review your itinerary, prescribe preventive medicine and give travel vaccines. Call (407) 423-1039, ideally 4 to 6 weeks before departure; last-minute travelers are welcome.
  • Infectious disease specialists diagnose and treat malaria, including relapsing and severe cases, working with the hospital care team.
  • A fever after travel to a malaria area is seen in the emergency department, where the blood test is read within hours. Infectious disease specialists then direct treatment.

Children traveling abroad can also be seen by pediatric infectious disease specialists at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

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References

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Yellow Book: Malaria.
    https://www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/hcp/travel-associated-infections-diseases/malaria.html
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About Malaria.
    https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/index.html
  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preventing Malaria.
    https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/prevention/index.html
  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Malaria Diagnostic Tests.
    https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/hcp/diagnosis-testing/index.html
  5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Algorithm for Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment in the United States.
    https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/hcp/clinical-guidance/appendix-b-algorithm.html
  6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Clinical Guidance: Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment in the U.S.
    https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/hcp/clinical-guidance/index.html
  7. World Health Organization. Malaria fact sheet.
    https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria
  8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Outbreak of Locally Acquired Mosquito-Transmitted (Autochthonous) Malaria, Florida and Texas, May to July 2023. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2023;72(36):973-978.
    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7236a1.htm

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Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea is the most common illness people pick up on a trip abroad, usually from germs in food or water. Most cases ease within a few days. A visit before you leave helps you lower the risk and pack what you need to treat it. Orlando Health infectious disease specialists can help.

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You have booked the flights, planned the days and saved for the trip. Travelers' diarrhea is the illness most likely to interrupt a trip abroad, and it is also one of the most preventable and most treatable.

Travelers' diarrhea is loose, watery stools that start during international travel or soon after you return, often with cramps, an urgent need to go and sometimes nausea or a fever. It comes from germs, most often bacteria, in food or water that has been contaminated. Depending on where you go and when, 30 to 70 percent of travelers get it over a two-week trip.

The good news is that most cases are mild and clear up within a few days. Careful choices about food and water lower the risk, fluids keep you safe while it passes, and a plan from your travel medicine consultation means you leave with medicine to treat it if it strikes. This page explains the symptoms, the causes, how to prevent it and how it is treated.

What Is Travelers' Diarrhea?

Travelers' diarrhea is a gut infection picked up while traveling, most often in a country where water treatment and food handling differ from home. Doctors describe it by how much it affects you:

  • Mild diarrhea is unpleasant and still lets you go on with your plans.
  • Moderate diarrhea is distressing or gets in the way of your plans.
  • Severe diarrhea keeps you in bed. Any diarrhea with blood in it counts as severe.

Without treatment, most cases caused by bacteria last three to seven days, and cases caused by viruses often pass in two or three. Having had it before gives no protection.

Symptoms of Travelers' Diarrhea

Symptoms usually start suddenly, within hours to a few days of eating or drinking something contaminated:

  • Loose or watery stools, several times a day.
  • Stomach cramps and an urgent need to use the bathroom.
  • Nausea, bloating and sometimes vomiting.
  • A fever, in some cases.
  • Blood or mucus in the stool, less often, which points to a more serious infection.

When a parasite is the cause, symptoms start more slowly, often one to two weeks after exposure, and can last for weeks.

When to Get Help Now

Call 911 or go to the emergency department for:

  • No urine for 8 hours or more.
  • Fainting or feeling about to faint.
  • Confusion, or being unusually sleepy and hard to wake.
  • A baby or young child with diarrhea who is limp, has sunken eyes or cannot drink.
  • Severe belly pain that does not let up.
  • A fever during a trip to a country where malaria is common, or in the year after you come home, is an emergency: go to the emergency department the same day without waiting for an appointment, say where you traveled and ask to be tested for malaria, even if you took your preventive medicine.

Abroad, use the local emergency number or go to the nearest hospital.

Call your care team the same day for:

  • A fever of 102°F or higher, or in a child 101.3°F or higher, after a trip to a place without malaria.
  • Blood or mucus in your stool.
  • Diarrhea that lasts more than three days, or that is getting worse.
  • Vomiting that keeps you from holding down fluids.
  • Dark urine, a dry mouth or dizziness when you stand up, early signs of dehydration.

Abroad, a local clinic or your travel insurance help line can point you to care. When you cannot tell which list you are in, call and describe what is happening; if nobody can be reached and it looks like the first list, go.

Causes of Travelers' Diarrhea

Travelers' diarrhea spreads through food or water contaminated with stool: tap water and ice, raw vegetables, unpeeled fruit, undercooked meat and seafood, and food left out at room temperature.

  • Bacteria cause at least three out of four cases. The most common is a type of E. coli; Campylobacter, Shigella and Salmonella cause others.
  • Viruses, especially norovirus, cause a smaller share and more often bring vomiting.
  • Parasites such as Giardia cause about 1 in 10 cases, mostly on longer trips.

Risk Factors for Travelers' Diarrhea

Destination matters most. The risk is highest in much of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Mexico, and Central and South America. Other factors that raise the chance of getting it, or of getting sicker:

  • Street food and places without reliable refrigeration.
  • Age. Young adults get it more often; young children and older adults dehydrate more easily.
  • Medicines that lower stomach acid, which normally kills some germs.
  • A long-term illness, such as diabetes, kidney disease or inflammatory bowel disease, or a weakened immune system.
  • Pregnancy, when dehydration is a greater concern.

Prevention of Travelers' Diarrhea

A few habits lower your risk:

  • Choose hot, freshly cooked food, and fruit you peel yourself.
  • Drink from factory-sealed bottles and cans, or water that has been boiled or disinfected. Coffee and tea made with boiled water are generally safe.
  • Skip ice unless you know it was made with safe water, and brush your teeth with bottled or treated water.
  • Wash your hands with soap and water before eating and after using the bathroom, or use a sanitizer with at least 60 percent alcohol.

Bismuth subsalicylate, found in some stomach remedies, can lower the risk by about half. It is unsuitable for children under 12, during pregnancy, with an aspirin allergy or with blood thinners, so ask at your visit whether it fits you. A daily antibiotic to prevent diarrhea is not recommended for most travelers.

No vaccine prevents travelers' diarrhea itself. Travel vaccines for typhoid and hepatitis A protect against two other serious illnesses spread through food and water.

Diagnosis of Travelers' Diarrhea

Most travelers' diarrhea is recognized from the symptoms and the trip, and it clears without testing. When the illness is severe, bloody or long-lasting, or starts after you return:

  • Stool tests look for the bacteria, virus or parasite and can guide which medicine will work.
  • Blood tests check for dehydration and signs of a more serious infection.

Treatment Options for Travelers' Diarrhea

Treatment depends on how much the illness affects you; plan it at your travel visit.

Fluids and Oral Rehydration

Replacing lost fluids comes first for everyone, and matters most for children, older adults and anyone with a long-term illness. Oral rehydration salts, sold in packets, mix with a liter of safe water; for mild cases, any safe drink helps.

Medicines

  • Loperamide, sold over the counter, slows diarrhea and eases urgency, which helps on a long bus ride or flight. Use it on its own only when you have no fever and no blood in your stool.
  • Antibiotics are for moderate or severe diarrhea and shorten the illness by a day or two. Azithromycin is often the choice for diarrhea with fever or blood, and in parts of Asia where some bacteria resist other antibiotics.

At your travel medicine consultation, we can prescribe a standby antibiotic to pack, with clear instructions on when to start it.

Children and Pregnancy

Children lose fluid faster than adults, so start oral rehydration early and keep breastfeeding. Loperamide is never given to children under 2, is rarely used under 6, and in older children is used only on a doctor's advice and for a day or two at most. When a child needs an antibiotic, azithromycin dosed by weight is usually the choice. During pregnancy, fluids come first, azithromycin can be used when an antibiotic is needed, and water should be boiled, bottled or filtered rather than treated with iodine tablets, which are not used in pregnancy.

When to Talk to Your Care Team

Book your travel visit 4 to 6 weeks before you leave, so there is time for vaccines and prescriptions; last-minute travelers are welcome too. After the trip, tell your doctor about diarrhea that lasts two weeks or longer, belly symptoms that keep returning or weight loss you cannot explain, and say where you traveled.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I start the antibiotic as soon as diarrhea begins?

Usually only when the diarrhea is moderate or severe, meaning it disrupts your plans or comes with fever or blood. For mild cases, fluids and loperamide are often enough. Follow the plan from your travel visit.

Is ice in my drink safe?

Only when you know it was made from safe water. Alcohol in a drink does not kill germs in the ice, so ask for drinks without it.

Is travelers' diarrhea contagious?

The germs can spread from person to person, especially within a family or group. Handwashing after the bathroom and before handling food protects the people you travel with.

Can I eat normally while I have it?

Yes, as you feel able. Keep drinking fluids and start with simple foods. Breastfed babies should keep nursing.

What if diarrhea starts after I get home?

Some infections, especially from parasites, show up days or weeks later. See your doctor, say where you traveled, and ask whether a stool test makes sense.

Who Treats It and Where

Travelers' diarrhea is prevented, planned for and treated by infectious disease specialists, working with your primary care doctor.

  • Travel Medicine program. Travel visits in our infectious diseases offices, with vaccines and prescriptions to prevent or treat travel illness. Call (407) 423-1039.
  • Infectious disease specialists. They treat diarrhea that is severe or slow to clear, during or after a trip.
  • Primary care. A good first call for symptoms after you return.
  • Digestive specialists. For symptoms that last weeks after you get home, a gastroenterologist looks for the cause.
  • Children's infectious disease specialists at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children care for children before and after travel.
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References

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Yellow Book: Travelers' Diarrhea.
    https://www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/hcp/preparing-international-travelers/travelers-diarrhea.html
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Yellow Book: Food and Water Precautions for Travelers.
    https://www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/hcp/preparing-international-travelers/food-and-water-precautions-for-travelers.html
  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Yellow Book: Pregnant Travelers.
    https://www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/hcp/family-travel/pregnant-travelers.html
  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Yellow Book: Traveling Safely with Infants and Children.
    https://www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/hcp/family-travel/traveling-safely-with-infants-and-children.html
  5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Travelers' Health: Travelers' Diarrhea.
    https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/travelers-diarrhea

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Altitude Sickness

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Central Florida lies close to sea level, so a ski week in Colorado, a visit to Cusco or a trek in Nepal asks your body to adjust to air it has never had to work with. A pounding headache and a queasy stomach on the first night are common, and they leave travelers wondering whether to keep going.

Altitude sickness is the illness that can come with that change. As you go higher, each breath brings in less oxygen, and some bodies adjust more slowly than the climb. Most cases are mild and pass in a day or two with rest. A small number become serious, with fluid building up in the brain or the lungs, and those call for going down at once and emergency care.

Altitude sickness can also largely be prevented. A planned ascent, rest days and, for many travelers, a prescription medicine started before the trip all lower the risk. This page explains the symptoms, the risks, prevention and what to do if it starts, and how a travel medicine consultation helps you plan.

What Is Altitude Sickness?

Altitude sickness happens when you go up faster than your body can adjust. Higher up, each breath brings in less oxygen, and over several days the body adapts by breathing faster and deeper. This adjustment is called acclimatization, and symptoms appear when the climb outpaces it.

Risk begins for most people who sleep at about 8,000 feet (2,450 meters) or higher. Several Colorado ski towns, Cusco in Peru, La Paz in Bolivia, Quito in Ecuador, and treks in the Himalayas and on Kilimanjaro all reach that height.

Altitude illness takes three forms:

  • Acute mountain sickness is the common, mild form. In Colorado, about one in four visitors who sleep above 8,000 feet has some of it.
  • High altitude cerebral edema (HACE) is swelling of the brain from fluid. It is rare and life threatening, and it usually grows out of acute mountain sickness in someone who kept climbing.
  • High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) is fluid in the lungs. It is also rare, and it can turn fatal even faster than HACE.

Symptoms of Altitude Sickness

Symptoms usually start 2 to 12 hours after you reach a new height and often ease within one to three days if you stop going higher. Acute mountain sickness brings:

  • A headache, the main sign.
  • Tiredness or weakness.
  • Nausea and loss of appetite, and sometimes vomiting.
  • Dizziness or light-headedness.
  • Poor sleep.

Getting winded with effort is normal at altitude; breathlessness while resting is a warning sign.

When to Get Help Now

Go down now and call 911, or the local emergency number where you are, for:

  • Confusion, odd behavior, or drowsiness so deep the person is hard to wake.
  • Staggering, clumsiness or being unable to walk in a straight line.
  • Breathlessness while resting.
  • A cough that brings up frothy, pink or bloody mucus.
  • Bluish or gray lips or fingertips.
  • A new cough, chest tightness, or getting winded on easy walks much sooner than your travel companions, which can be the first signs of fluid in the lungs: stop going higher and start down with a companion.

Start down right away with a companion, without waiting for help to arrive.

Call your care team, or see a local doctor or clinic, the same day for:

  • A headache that does not improve after a day of rest at the same altitude.
  • Nausea or vomiting that keeps you from holding down fluids.
  • Symptoms that keep getting worse at the same altitude; go lower first, then get advice.

When you cannot tell which list you are in, treat it as the first list and go down.

Causes of Altitude Sickness

Altitude sickness comes from the drop in oxygen at high elevation combined with a climb faster than the body can adapt. How strongly a person reacts varies, and no test predicts who will get sick. The pace of the climb is what most often sets it off: flying straight into a high city, or raising the height where you sleep too quickly. Where you sleep matters more than how high you hike during the day.

Risk Factors for Altitude Sickness

  • Living at or near sea level, as most Central Floridians do.
  • A past episode of altitude sickness, the best guide to how you will do on a similar trip.
  • A fast ascent, including flying directly to a high city such as Cusco or La Paz.
  • Alcohol and other substances that interfere with the body's adjustment.
  • Heart, lung or nervous system conditions, and anemia.
  • Sickle cell disease or sickle cell trait, which call for medical advice before any high-altitude trip.

Fit and unfit travelers face the same risk, and children are as likely as adults to get it.

If you have a heart or lung condition such as heart failure, angina, COPD, hard-to-control asthma or pulmonary hypertension, or you have had a heart attack or stroke in the last three months, talk with your specialist before booking a high-altitude trip. Pregnant travelers are generally advised to sleep no higher than 10,000 feet, after checking with their prenatal care provider.

Prevention of Altitude Sickness

Giving your body time is the most effective prevention.

  • Go up gradually. Avoid going from sea level to sleeping at 9,000 feet or higher in a single day, and plan easy days after flying into a high city.
  • Above 10,000 feet, raise your sleeping altitude by no more than about 1,600 feet a day, and add a rest day for every 3,300 feet you gain.
  • Drink enough water, eat regular meals and limit alcohol, especially in the first days.
  • Know the early symptoms, and plan how you would get down quickly.

A prescription medicine called acetazolamide speeds the body's adjustment and lowers the chance of altitude sickness. It is usually started the day before the climb and taken through the first days at altitude. Tingling fingers and toes and urinating more often are common side effects. Tell your doctor about any sulfa drug allergy. A travel medicine consultation is the time to decide whether it fits your trip and your health.

Diagnosis of Altitude Sickness

Acute mountain sickness is recognized by its symptoms and their timing, beginning within hours to a few days of reaching a new height. A guide or doctor may also check your oxygen level with a fingertip clip.

In a clinic or hospital, a doctor listens to your lungs for crackling sounds that can mean fluid, and may order a chest X-ray, blood tests, an electrocardiogram (ECG) or a brain CT scan to rule out the serious forms and other causes.

Treatment Options for Altitude Sickness

Treatment depends on which form you have and how severe it is.

Rest and Going Lower

For mild acute mountain sickness, stop climbing and rest at the same altitude until the symptoms are gone. Never go higher to sleep while you have symptoms, however mild. If they get worse despite rest, go down; dropping about 1,000 feet often helps quickly. For HACE or HAPE, going down is urgent and is the most important treatment.

Oxygen

Supplemental oxygen eases symptoms quickly. Where going down is impossible, a portable pressure bag can mimic a lower altitude for a few hours.

Medicines

Ibuprofen or acetaminophen can ease an altitude headache, and acetazolamide can treat mild cases. Dexamethasone, a steroid, treats more severe cases and HACE, and nifedipine treats HAPE when oxygen is unavailable. These medicines work alongside going lower and oxygen, which remain the main treatment.

Your plan is your own, made with the doctor caring for you.

When to Talk to Your Care Team

Book a travel visit 4 to 6 weeks before a trip above 8,000 feet, especially if you have had altitude sickness before, have a heart or lung condition, or are pregnant. Last-minute travelers are welcome too. Bring your itinerary with the heights where you will sleep and your list of medicines. After you come home, tell your doctor about a cough or breathlessness that has not cleared.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is a ski trip to Colorado high enough to cause altitude sickness?

It can be. Several Colorado ski towns lie above 8,000 feet, where about one in four visitors has some symptoms.

Can medicine prevent altitude sickness?

Yes. Acetazolamide, started the day before you go up, lowers the chance of altitude sickness. Your doctor decides whether it fits your itinerary and your health.

Does being fit protect me?

Fitness does not change the risk. A slower ascent is what helps.

Can children get altitude sickness?

Yes, children are as likely as adults to get it, and young children may show it as fussiness, poor eating or poor sleep. Ask about medicine and pacing for children at a travel visit.

If I had altitude sickness before, will it happen again?

It is more likely on a similar trip. A slower plan and preventive medicine lower that chance.

Who Treats It and Where

On a trip, the nearest clinic or emergency department treats altitude sickness. Preparing for it starts before you leave.

  • Travel Medicine program. Orlando Health travel medicine specialists review your itinerary and health, plan your ascent with you, and prescribe medicines to prevent or treat travel illness. Visits are held in our infectious diseases offices; call (407) 423-1039, ideally 4 to 6 weeks before you leave.
  • Lung specialists, for travelers with a lung condition, to confirm it is stable and plan for oxygen if needed.
  • Heart specialists, for travelers with heart disease, to confirm the trip is safe and how high to go.
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References

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Yellow Book 2026: High-Altitude Travel and Altitude Illness.
    https://www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/hcp/environmental-hazards-risks/high-altitude-travel-and-altitude-illness.html
  2. Luks AM, Beidleman BA, Freer L, et al. Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness: 2024 Update. Wilderness Environ Med. 2024;35(1 suppl):2S-19S.
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37833187/
  3. Omidi A, Hawley GD, Kain D, et al. What Is New in Altitude- and Cold-Related Illnesses of Travel: Appraisal and Summary of the Updated Guidelines from the Wilderness Medical Society. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2025;22(2):284.
    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11855094/
  4. MedlinePlus. Acute mountain sickness.
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If you are planning a trip outside the United States, you may be wondering which shots you need, whether the water is safe to drink, or what to do if you get sick far from home. Diseases that are rare in the United States, such as typhoid, yellow fever and malaria, are still common in many parts of the world, and food, water, insects, altitude and heat bring risks of their own.

The visit suits every kind of traveler: a student heading out for a semester abroad or a school program, a parent getting children ready for a family trip, a missionary or volunteer, someone traveling for work, and anyone going back to visit family in another country. People who travel to see friends and relatives are among those most likely to get sick abroad, because they often stay longer and live and eat as local families do.

At Orlando Health, travel consultations take place in our infectious diseases offices. Booking 4 to 6 weeks before you leave gives vaccines time to work and leaves room for any that need more than one dose, and last-minute travelers are welcome too.

What Is a Travel Medicine Consultation?

A travel medicine consultation is an appointment with a clinician who specializes in the health risks of international travel. It is a planning visit. You talk through your trip and your health, and you leave with protection matched to where you are going. Most of the visit is conversation, followed by any vaccines you need that day.

The advice is personal. Two people flying to the same country can need different protection, depending on whether they stay in a city or a rural village, travel in the rainy season, or hike in the mountains. So the visit starts with your itinerary, and every recommendation follows from it.

A consultation covers:

  • The health risks of each place on your trip, including current outbreaks.
  • Your routine vaccines, brought up to date, such as measles, mumps and rubella, tetanus, flu and COVID-19.
  • Vaccines for your destination, such as typhoid, yellow fever, chikungunya and rabies, and others your itinerary calls for. See travel vaccines.
  • Medicines to prevent or treat travel illness, such as medicine to prevent malaria, an antibiotic to take with you for travelers' diarrhea, and medicine for altitude sickness.
  • Everyday protection, including safe food and water, insect bite prevention, sun and heat.
  • Safety and security, including road safety, swimming and water safety, and what to do if you are hurt or sick abroad.

Why a Travel Medicine Consultation Is Performed

A consultation prepares you for:

  • Diseases that vaccines prevent. Many are uncommon at home and still widespread in other regions.
  • Entry requirements. Some countries require proof of yellow fever vaccination before you can enter. That proof is recorded on an international certificate, often called the yellow card. Yellow fever vaccine is given only at authorized vaccine centers and can be hard to find.
  • Illness spread by food and water, the most common health problem for travelers.
  • Illness spread by mosquitoes, such as malaria, dengue and chikungunya.
  • Altitude, heat and injury, which can affect any traveler.
  • A health condition that needs planning, such as keeping enough medicine on hand and knowing where to find care at your destination.

Who Is a Candidate

Anyone leaving the country can benefit from a consultation. It is especially helpful if you are:

  • Traveling to parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East.
  • Staying a month or longer, such as a semester abroad, a mission trip or a work assignment.
  • Visiting rural areas, trekking at high altitude, or working with people or animals.
  • Visiting friends and relatives in another country.
  • Traveling with children.
  • Pregnant or planning a pregnancy.
  • Living with a chronic condition such as diabetes, heart or lung disease, or a weakened immune system, or taking medicines that lower your immunity.

How to Prepare

  • Book early. Schedule your visit 4 to 6 weeks before you leave. Some vaccines need two or three doses spread over weeks, and protection takes time to build. If your trip is sooner, book anyway: a great deal can be arranged in a single visit.
  • Your itinerary. Bring the countries, cities and regions you will visit, your dates, where you will stay, and what you plan to do.
  • Your vaccine records, including childhood, school, military and work records.
  • Your medicine list. Include prescriptions, over-the-counter medicines and supplements, along with any allergies, especially to eggs, latex or an earlier vaccine.
  • Forms and questions. Bring any health forms from a school, program or employer, and your questions.
  • Your insurance card and photo ID.
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What to Expect

During the Visit

Your clinician reviews your itinerary and your health, then explains the risks at each stop and recommends vaccines and medicines for your trip. You decide on the plan together. Vaccines you choose are given at the visit, and you leave with your prescriptions. After a shot, you may be asked to stay seated for about 15 minutes, because some people feel lightheaded after a vaccine.

After the Visit

A sore arm, a mild fever or tiredness for a day or two after vaccines is common. If a vaccine needs more doses, you schedule them before you leave. Fill your prescriptions early and follow the timing you were given, since every malaria medicine starts before you travel, some of them two weeks before. Keep your vaccine record with your passport.

During and After Your Trip

Follow your plan while you are away, and keep your medicines in the bag you keep with you. If you get sick abroad, seek care at a reputable clinic or hospital. After you come home, tell any doctor you see where you traveled, because some travel illnesses appear weeks or months later. Malaria can begin a year or more after a trip.

Call 911 for trouble breathing, swelling of the face or throat, or hives spreading across your body after a vaccine, and for chest pain, confusion, a seizure or fainting. A fever during a trip to a country where malaria is common, or in the year after you come home, is an emergency: go to the emergency department the same day without waiting for an appointment, say where you traveled and ask to be tested for malaria, even if you took your preventive medicine. Call your care team the same day for diarrhea that lasts more than three days or has blood in it, or redness and swelling at a shot site that keeps growing after two days.

Risks and Complications

The consultation itself is a conversation and a plan. The vaccines and medicines it leads to have side effects, usually mild:

  • Vaccine reactions such as soreness, redness, headache, tiredness or a low fever, which pass in a day or two.
  • Serious allergic reactions, which are rare. Staff are trained and equipped to treat them right away.
  • Live vaccines, such as yellow fever, are not advised for everyone, including some people who are pregnant or have a weakened immune system. If a required vaccine is unsafe for you, your clinician can explain your options, including a medical waiver letter.
  • Medicine side effects, such as an upset stomach or sun sensitivity with some malaria medicines, or tingling fingers with altitude medicine. Your clinician chooses medicines that fit your health and your other prescriptions.

Many illnesses spread by mosquitoes, food and water have no vaccine, so insect protection and careful eating and drinking remain part of every plan.

Results of a Travel Medicine Consultation

You leave the visit with:

  • A plan for your trip.
  • The vaccines you chose, with dates for any remaining doses.
  • An updated vaccine record, including the yellow card when you receive yellow fever vaccine.
  • Prescriptions to prevent or treat travel illness, with instructions for each.
  • A clear sense of when to seek care, both on your trip and after you come home.

Preparation lowers the chance of getting sick abroad and helps you act quickly if you do.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a visit for a short trip or a cruise?

Often, yes. Your risk depends more on where you go than on how long you stay, and a cruise can stop in several countries in one week. When you book, mention every port and stop so the team can plan for each.

Does my child need a travel visit?

Often, yes. Some childhood vaccines can be given earlier than usual before international travel. For example, babies 6 to 11 months old can get an early measles, mumps and rubella dose before a trip.

Will my insurance cover the visit and vaccines?

Coverage for travel visits and travel vaccines varies by plan. Our team can tell you what to expect when you book.

Can I get travel vaccines while pregnant?

Many vaccines are safe during pregnancy, and some live vaccines are usually postponed. Your clinician weighs the risks at your destination for each one and may suggest talking with your obstetric care team about timing.

Do I need a new visit for every trip?

Some protection lasts for years. One dose of yellow fever vaccine protects most people for life, and a completed hepatitis A series lasts a long time. A new destination brings new risks, though, so a visit before each trip to a new region is a good habit.

Who Provides It and Where

Travel medicine consultations are given through the Orlando Health Travel Medicine program, in infectious diseases offices in Central Florida. To book, call (407) 423-1039.

  • Adults and older children are seen by infectious diseases specialists in the program's offices.
  • Children can also be seen by pediatric infectious disease specialists at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.
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References

  1. Chen LH, Bourque DL. The pre-travel consultation. CDC Yellow Book 2026: Health Information for International Travel.
    https://www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/hcp/preparing-international-travelers/the-pre-travel-consultation.html
  2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Need travel vaccines? Plan ahead.
    https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/travel-vaccines
  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Find a clinic: travel clinics and yellow fever vaccine.
    https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/travel-clinics
  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yellow fever vaccine.
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  5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Plan for travel: measles.
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  6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms of malaria.
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  • Nobody plans a NICU stay: a baby comes to one from the delivery room or by transfer between hospitals, so a button to find one serves no reader.
  • A baby in a NICU already has its doctors at the bedside, and most families name a pediatrician before discharge, so a pediatrician button on an apnea page sells to nobody.
  • Serving the business and serving the parent are meant to agree: where no honest lead exists, help that keeps the family with Orlando Health is the business value.
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RULINGPlain words, and no NICU alarm for parents of full-term babies

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  • Parents of NICU babies recoil from sweet or sentimental copy.
  • Parents of full-term babies are frightened by NICU detail, and most newborns never need one: neonatal care is five settings, the delivery room, the nursery, the Level II and the Level III and IV NICUs, and follow-up, and the NICU is two of them.

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  • The ruled list of children's service lines carries pediatric hematology and pediatric oncology, pulmonology and sleep medicine, neurology and neurosurgery as separate lines; a combined name matches no page that will exist.
  • A gate refuses any service card whose name is not a ruled line.

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  • Measured across the designer's frames: every pill is 2.3 to 2.5 times its label tall, and the hero pills carry a calendar or a phone before the label.
  • A gate checks every rendered pill against these proportions.

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RESEARCHBreadcrumbs show a page's place in the site; a back link and the line card give the way back

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  • Breadcrumbs should show a page's place in the site's hierarchy, never the visitor's history; history trails grow long and repetitive and do nothing for a visitor who arrives from search.
  • A page with more than one parent shows one canonical trail for everyone, which keeps the page's signal to search engines consistent.
  • A separate link back to where the visitor came from is a common pattern (a store's Back to Results) and leaves the canonical trail untouched.
  • Tested in the demo: a parent reading condition pages could not find the way back to the Neonatal Care page.

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Several travel vaccines need more than one dose or time to build protection, so the best time for a visit is four to six weeks before you leave. If your departure is sooner, book the visit anyway: many vaccines still protect well when given close to the trip.

Travel vaccines fall into two groups. Routine vaccines, such as measles, tetanus and flu, are the ones recommended at home, brought up to date because these illnesses are more common in many parts of the world. Destination vaccines, such as typhoid, yellow fever, chikungunya and rabies, are matched to where you are going, how long you will stay and what you will do there. Some countries require proof of yellow fever vaccination at the border.

Your list comes out of a travel medicine consultation, where a specialist reviews your itinerary and your health and recommends what fits. Students, parents traveling with children, missionaries, business travelers and people visiting family overseas all start the same way. Medicine to prevent malaria and to treat travelers' diarrhea, with food, water and insect precautions, covers the risks no vaccine reaches.

What Is a Travel Vaccine and How Does It Work?

A vaccine teaches your immune system to recognize a germ before you meet it, so your body can respond quickly if you are exposed on your trip. Most travel vaccines are made from an inactivated germ or a piece of one. A few are live vaccines, made from a weakened form of the germ, and those are the ones some people need to avoid.

Protection builds over days to weeks. Vaccines work best alongside careful food and water choices: the typhoid vaccines protect roughly half to eight in ten people.

Kinds of Travel Vaccines

Routine Vaccines, Brought Up to Date

  • Measles, mumps and rubella. Adults born in 1957 or later without proof of immunity get two doses at least 28 days apart. Babies 6 to 11 months old can get an early dose before international travel, then the usual doses after their first birthday.
  • Tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, with a booster if yours is due.
  • Flu. In the Southern Hemisphere, flu season runs from about April to September, and in the tropics flu can circulate all year.
  • COVID-19, a decision you make with your care team based on your health and your trip.
  • Others your age and health call for, such as hepatitis B, pneumonia and shingles vaccines, and a one-time adult polio booster for some destinations.

Destination Vaccines

  • Hepatitis A, a liver infection spread through food and water, recommended for most travelers to countries where it is common. The two-dose series starts at age 1; babies 6 to 11 months old can get one travel dose first, then the full series after their first birthday. One dose before you leave protects most healthy people, and a later dose completes long-term protection.
  • Typhoid, a serious illness spread through food and water. It comes as one shot, from age 2, given at least two weeks before travel, or as four capsules taken every other day, from age 6, finished at least a week before travel.
  • Yellow fever, a virus spread by mosquitoes in parts of Africa and South America. It is a live vaccine for ages 9 months and up, and one dose protects most people for life. It is a hard-to-find specialty vaccine, given only at designated yellow fever vaccination centers.
  • Rabies, before any exposure. Two doses a week apart, for travelers who will be around animals, far from medical care, or abroad for a long stay. Children are at higher risk because they are more likely to approach animals and less likely to report a bite.
  • Japanese encephalitis, a mosquito-borne virus in parts of Asia and the western Pacific. Two doses, finished at least a week before travel, for stays of a month or more and for shorter trips with rural or outdoor exposure.
  • Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus whose fever and joint pain can last for months. The vaccine in use in the United States is one dose for people 12 and older, recommended for travel to a place with an outbreak.
  • Others, based on your itinerary, such as meningococcal vaccine (required for the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages), cholera vaccine, and tick-borne encephalitis vaccine for forested parts of Europe and Asia.

What a Travel Vaccine Is Used For

By goal: to keep you healthy on your trip, to meet the entry rules of the countries you visit, and to keep you from bringing an illness home.

By risk:

  • Illnesses from food and water, such as hepatitis A, typhoid and cholera. For travelers' diarrhea, the most common illness abroad, your care team may prescribe medicine to take with you.
  • Illnesses spread by mosquitoes, such as yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and chikungunya.
  • Illnesses still common in many parts of the world, such as measles and polio.
  • Animal bites, and the rabies risk that comes with them.

Malaria is the one to plan for separately. No malaria vaccine is available to travelers from the United States, so it is prevented with medicine taken before, during and after the trip, together with steps to avoid mosquito bites.

Before You Start

Plan four to six weeks ahead. Some vaccines need a series, and some must be spaced apart from each other. Last-minute travelers are welcome too.

Bring what helps your care team plan:

  • Your vaccine records.
  • Your itinerary: countries, cities or rural areas, dates, and what you plan to do.
  • Your medicines, allergies, and any reaction you have had to a vaccine.

Tell your care team if you are pregnant, breastfeeding or planning a pregnancy, or if your immune system is weakened by an illness, cancer treatment, an organ transplant or a medicine. Your care team will choose the protection that suits you.

Cost and coverage vary by vaccine and by plan, so ask about yours when you book.

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What to Expect

The visit. Several vaccines can usually be given at the same visit. The typhoid capsules are taken at home and kept in the refrigerator.

Your records. You leave with a record of every vaccine given. For yellow fever, you receive the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis, often called the yellow card. It becomes valid 10 days after the vaccine and lasts for life. Keep it with your passport, ready to show at the border.

After you come home. A fever during a trip to a country where malaria is common, or in the year after you come home, is an emergency: go to the emergency department the same day without waiting for an appointment, say where you traveled and ask to be tested for malaria, even if you took your preventive medicine.

Side Effects and Risks

Most side effects are mild and pass in a day or two: a sore, red or swollen arm, a low fever, a headache, tiredness or aching muscles. The typhoid capsules can upset the stomach. After a yellow fever vaccine, about one person in four has mild aches, a headache or a low fever that start a few days later and can last 5 to 10 days.

Serious reactions are rare. A severe allergic reaction can happen with any vaccine, usually within minutes to hours. Trouble breathing or swelling of the face or throat after a vaccine is a 911 call.

Yellow fever vaccine has rare serious reactions, more often after a first dose and in people 60 and older, so your care team weighs your age and health first. If you cannot receive it for medical reasons, your care team can provide a signed waiver letter, though not every country accepts one.

Live vaccines, such as yellow fever, measles and the typhoid capsules, are generally avoided during pregnancy and with a weakened immune system. Where a live vaccine does not suit you, your care team recommends another way to stay protected.

Benefits: What It Can Do

  • Protecting you from serious illnesses that are more common abroad than at home.
  • Meeting entry rules, such as proof of yellow fever vaccination.
  • Making care after an exposure simpler. After a bite, a traveler vaccinated against rabies needs fewer shots and no immune globulin, which is hard to find in many countries.

Frequently Asked Questions

How Far Ahead of My Trip Should I Get Travel Vaccines?

Four to six weeks before you leave. Some vaccines have their own deadline: the typhoid shot at least two weeks before travel, and the yellow fever certificate valid 10 days after the shot.

Can I Still Get Vaccinated if I Leave Next Week?

Yes. Many vaccines still help close to departure, and your care team will choose what can protect you in the time you have.

Is There a Vaccine for Malaria?

Not for travelers from the United States. Malaria is prevented with medicine taken before, during and after your trip, plus protection from mosquito bites, and your care team can prescribe it at the same visit.

Can Children Get Travel Vaccines?

Yes, with age limits that vary: hepatitis A from 6 months for a travel dose (the series itself starts at 1), the typhoid shot from age 2, and yellow fever from 9 months. Babies 6 to 11 months old can get an early measles dose before international travel.

Do I Need New Vaccines for Every Trip?

Often not. Many travel vaccines last for years, and one yellow fever dose protects most people for life. Some need a booster if you keep traveling, so bring your records to each visit.

Who Provides It and Where

Travel vaccines are given through the Orlando Health Travel Medicine program, in its infectious diseases offices. Call (407) 423-1039 to book a travel visit, ideally four to six weeks before you leave.

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