Public health response to two incidents of confirmed MERS-CoV cases travelling on flights through London Heathrow Airport in 2014 – lessons learnt

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2015, Pages

  Parry Ford, F ^a   Boddington, N ^a   Pebody, R ^a   Phin, N ^a   Freedman, Joanne ^b   Dabrera, Gavin ^b   Zhao, Hongxin ^b   Chandrakumar, Mathibalasingham ^b   Shin, Gee Yen ^b   Holliman, Richard ^b   Ready, Darren ^b   Sirotkin, Mel ^b   Grice, Diana ^b   Zambon, Maria ^b   Catchpole, Mike ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RHINOVIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; AIRPLANE CREW; AIRPORT; ALGORITHM; CASE REPORT; EMPORIATRICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLIGHT; INFECTION CONTROL; MASS MEDIUM; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SAUDI ARABIA; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENGLAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

AIRPORTS; CONTACT TRACING; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; SAUDI ARABIA; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84945278811     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.18.21114     Document Type: Article

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