Guidance about SARS for airline flight crews, cargo and cleaning personnel, and personnel interacting with arriving passengers

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  This guidance is intended to assist commercial passenger airlines and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (BCBP), and other relevant agencies in establishing appropriate SARS-related precautions. Recommendations are based on standard infection control practices and on available epidemiologic information about the virus that causes SARS. To supplement the general information provided here, the following sections provide information related to specific job functions: Guidance for Airline Flight Crews about Management of Passengers with Possible SARS; Guidance about SARS for Airline Cleaning Personnel; Guidance about SARS for Airline Cargo Personnel; Guidance about SARS for Personnel Who Interact with Passengers Arriving from Areas with SARS.
• Content Notes:
  "April 23, 2004."
  
  Mode of access: Internet from the CDC web site as Acrobat .pdf file (122 KB, 7 p. ).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Aircraft Communicable Disease Control/methods Patient Isolation Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome/prevention & Control Travel Universal Precautions
• Series:
  Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  electronic resource; 1 online resource (7 p.)
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:38275754dfb12da09ca8bd070d4029e45414bccae8e330b95488876a394d74e4f74be0d0d007ccb40ad95f26d5e84bde7c135fde5bd31c49c061b443c9c8717c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/12061/cdc_12061_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 121.27 KB ]