Contacting passengers after exposure to measles on an international flight: Implications for responding to new disease threats and bioterrorism

Public Health Reports

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 458-463

  Lasher, Lara E ^a,b,c   Ayers, Tracy L ^c   Amornkul, Pauli N ^d   Nakata, Michele N ^c   Effler, Paul V ^a  

^a Disease Outbreak Control Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Disease Investigation Branch   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CASE FINDING; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEASLES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADOLESCENT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; JAPAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TIME; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

MEASLES VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AIRCRAFT; BIOTERRORISM; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAWAII; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 4544347720     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phr.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Daws G. Shoal of time: a history of the Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; 1974.
2. Geddes A. Infection in the twenty-first century: predictions and postulates. J Antimicrob Chemother 2000;46:873-7.
3. World Tourism Organization. Market trends 2000 [cited 2002 Sep 7]. Available from: URL: http://www.world-tourism.org/market_research/ facts&figures/market_trends/ita.htm
4. Lederberg J, Shope RE, Oaks SC Jr, editors. Institute of Medicine, Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health. Emerging infections: microbial threats to health in the United States. Washington: National Academy Press; 1992.
5. Kenyon TA, Valway SE, Ihle WW, Onorato IM, Castro KG. Transmission of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis during a long airplane flight. New Engl J Med 1996;334:933-8.
6. DeHart RL. Health issues of air travel. Annu Rev Public Health 2003;24:133-51.
7. Secretary of Health and Human Services, The Honorable Tommy Thompson, testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, May 9, 2001 [cited 2002 Sep 4]. Available from: URL: http:// www.senate.gov/~appropriations/commerce/ testimony/thompterr.html
8. O'Toole T, Mair M, Inglesby TV. Shining light on "Dark Winter." Clin Infect Dis 2002;34:972-83. Epub 2002 Feb 19 [cited 2004 Jan 22]. Available from: URL: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/v34n7/020165/ 020165.html
9. Subcommittee on National Security. TOP OFF exercise, Denver, Colorado 2001 [cited 2002 Aug 28]. Available from: www.house.gov /reform/ns/ web_resources/briefing_memo_july_23.htm
10. World Health Organization, Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response. Consensus document on the epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) [cited 2004 Jan 22]. Available from: URL: http://www.who.int/csr/sars/en/whoconsensus.pdf
11. Woodyard C, De Lollis B. U.S., Asian airlines handle SARS differently. USA Today 2003 May 5; Sect. B:1 [cited 2003 May 4]. Available from: URL: www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2003/2003-05-05-sars.htm
12. Health Canada, Population and Public Health Branch. SARS and air travel: interim guidelines for prevention and control. Version 2: May 8, 2003 [cited 2003 May 14]. Available from: URL: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pphb-dgspsp/sars-sras/ ic-ci/sarsmangmtpax_e.html
13. Amornkul P, Takahashi H, Bogard A, Nakata M, Harpaz R, Effler P. Low risk of measles transmission following exposure on an international airline flight. J Infect Dis 2004;189[Suppl 1]:581-5.
14. Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Access 2000. Seattle (WA): Microsoft Corporation; 1989-1999.
15. SPSS, Inc. SPSS 8.0 for Windows. Chicago: SPSS, Inc.; 1997.
16. Pickering LK, Peter G, Baker CJ, Gerber MA, MacDonald NE, Orenstein WA, et al. Measles, 2000. In: American Academy of Pediatrics. Red book: report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases. 25th ed. Elk Grove Village (IL): American Academy of Pediatrics; 2000. p. 385-96.
17. Wenzel RP. Airline travel and infection. New Engl J Med 1996;334:981-2.
18. Henderson DA, Inglesby TV, Bartlett JG, Ascher MS, Eitzen E, Jahrling PB, et al. Working Group on Civilian Biodefense. Smallpox as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. JAMA 1999;281:2127-37.
19. Inglesby TV, Dennis DT, Henderson DA, Bartlett JG, Ascher MS, Eitzen E, et al. Working Group on Civilian Biodefense. Plague as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. JAMA 2000;283:2281-90.