Information for the Travel Industry: Air Travel

Aircraft Illness and Death Reporting Protocols

Based on Federal Regulations (42 CFR Part 71), CDC DGMQ requires reporting from international conveyances destined for the U.S. of all onboard deaths and certain illnesses suggestive of a communicable disease.

• Federal regulations and process for reporting possible communicable illness to CDC on international flights destined for the U.S.
  • Available as a PDF (142 KB / 1 page)
• Guide for flight attendants for recognizing and reporting potential communicable illness on board flights bound for the U.S.
  • Available as a PDF (141 KB / 1 page)
• Cockpit card PDF (54 KB / 1 page)
  Cockpit card for pilots about reporting possible communicable illness to CDC on international flights destined for the U.S.
• Public Health announcements (59 KB / 2 pages)
  Scripts for public health announcements for five different potential communicable illness situations for use by flight crew
• CDC Quarantine Stations and jurisdictions

Measles and International Travel

• Flight Crew Public Health Information: Measles

Avian Influenza

• Interim Guidance for Airline Flight Crews and Persons Meeting Passengers Arriving from Areas with Avian Influenza
  • Available as a PDF (93 KB / 4 pages)

• Interim Guidance for Airline Cleaning Crew, Maintenance Crew, and Baggage/Package and Cargo Handlers for Airlines Returning from Areas Affected by Avian Influenza A (H5N1)
  • Available as a PDF (83 KB / 3 pages)
• Interim Guidance for Cleaning Aircraft Exteriors after Collisions with Birds in Avian Influenza A (H5N1)-Affected Areas

 

Air Travel, including Disinsection and In-flight Disease Transmission

Tuberculosis

• Tuberculosis Risk on Aircraft
• Tuberculosis and Air Travel: Guidelines for Prevention and Control, 2nd Edition (World Health Organization, 2006) (728 KB / 47 pages)
• Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB)

Meningitis

• Guidelines for the Management of Airline Passengers Exposed to Meningococcal Disease
  Information for health care providers

SARS

• SARS Information for Airline, Airport, and Air Travel Workers
• Managing International Travel-Related Transmission Risk
• SARS Risk on Aircraft

 

Airports Council International (ACI)
Preparedness guidelines for airports about communicable diseases

The International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Guidelines for airlines about health and safety and communicable diseases

International Civil Aviation Organization
Communicable disease/avian influenza guidelines