id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-316201-08pyx98r Grout, Andrea Guidelines, law, and governance: disconnects in the global control of airline-associated infectious diseases 2017-02-01 .txt text/plain 3437 180 40 2 Aircraft can now travel to almost any part of the world within 24 h, and can enable spread of infection either by inflight infection transmission or by transporting infectious passengers or vectors-eg, malaria-infected mosquitoes-from endemic to non-endemic regions, thus putting populations in destination countries at risk. 5 To reduce the risk of on-board disease transmission, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides cabin crews with information on general infection control measures and guidelines to identify ill and potentially infectious passengers. 4 Management of the risk of transporting infected passengers requires knowledge of transmission dynamics and the potential effectiveness of airport entry and exit screening measures, the ability to appropriately isolate or quarantine individual passengers on an aircraft, and adequately trained aircrew who are able to identify signs of infection and take appropriate measures. ./cache/cord-316201-08pyx98r.txt ./txt/cord-316201-08pyx98r.txt