Reporting onboard deaths and illnesses : a tool for cabin crew

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Global Migration and Quarantine.
• Description:
  The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations [42 CFR 70.4 and 71.21(b)] contains death and illness reporting requirements for flights engaged in interstate traffic and international flights arriving into the United States, respectively. 42 CFR 70.4 requires the commander in charge of the aircraft (interstate flights) to report before arrival a case or suspected case of communicable disease among passengers or crew members to the local health authority with jurisdiction for the arrival airport. 42 CFR 71.21(b) requires the commander of an aircraft (international flights) arriving into the United States to report before arrival any deaths or illnesses (as defined in the regulations) among passengers or crew to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) quarantine station. Conditions that require reporting are explicitly defined in the regulations for international travel, but not in the regulations for interstate travel. CDC recommends that airlines apply the same “required” and “requested” reporting standards for international flights to interstate flights.
• Subjects:
  Aircraft Disease Notification Travel
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Guideline
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9a5dba15e39daca39347ef6c83e7fe30f4c6fe7b62b59d3eb8f854713ad61cc5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/20860/cdc_20860_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 414.92 KB ]