Ebola disease: Health advice for travelling abroad
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Before you travel
Talk to a health care provider or visit a travel health clinic preferably 6 weeks before your trip to get personalized health advice. Even if your travel date is coming up soon, it's still worthwhile to make an appointment.
Check the travel advice and advisories page for your destination.
Travel advice and advisories by destination
Returning travellers
Travellers entering Canada
Border measures are in place for travellers who have been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and South Sudan in the previous 21 days before arrival to Canada.
If you develop symptoms of Ebola disease before you return to Canada:
- do not travel
- call a health care provider right away and describe your symptoms
If you feel sick or experience symptoms of Ebola disease during a flight, tell the:
- flight attendant before you land or
- border services officer as you enter Canada
They'll notify a quarantine officer who will assess your symptoms.
Under the Quarantine Act, you must tell a border services agent if you have, or may have, been exposed to a source of Ebola disease. You must tell them even if you don't show symptoms.
If you develop symptoms of Ebola disease after arriving in Canada:
- isolate yourself from others
- contact your local public health authority right away
They'll tell you what to do next and arrange for you to get a medical exam.
If you don't have any Ebola disease symptoms but think you may have been exposed while travelling:
- call your local public health authority
- monitor yourself for symptoms for 21 days, including taking your temperature twice a day
Contact your public health authority
Alberta
- Alberta Health Services: HealthLink
- Telephone: 811
- Ask for the medical officer of health on-call in your zone
British Columbia
- HealthLinkBC
- Telephone: 811
Manitoba
- Shared Health Manitoba
- Telephone: 204-788-8200
- Toll-free number: 1-888-315-9257
New Brunswick
- New Brunswick Health
- Telephone: 811
- Toll-free number: 1-877-795-3773
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Health and Community Services: Newfoundland and Labrador
- Help line numbers: Newfoundland and Labrador
- Telephone: 811
- Toll-free number: 1-888-709-2929
Northwest Territories
- Telephone: 811
Nova Scotia
- Nova Scotia Health
- Telephone: 811
- Toll-free number: 1-866-770-7763 (from a telephone registered in Nova Scotia only)
Nunavut
Ontario
- Ontario public health unit locations
- Ontario Health 811 online chat
- Telephone: 811
- Toll-free number: 1-866-797-0007
Prince Edward Island
- Health PEI
- Telephone: 811
- Telephone: 1-866-770-7724 (from a telephone registered in Prince Edward Island only)
Quebec
- Quebec: Info-Santé 811
- Telephone: 811
Saskatchewan
- Saskatchewan Health Authority HealthLine 811
- Telephone: 811
- Toll-free number: 1-877-800-0002
- Ask for the medical health officer on-call at your local public health office
Yukon
- Telephone: 811