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Article: Federal Air Travel Restrictions for Public Health Purposes - United States, June 2007-May 2008
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- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- September 19, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright U.S. Center for Disease Control Sep 19, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Persons with communicable diseases who travel on commercial aircraft can pose a risk for infection to the traveling public (1,2). In June 2007, federal agencies developed a public health Do Not Board (DNB) list, enabling domestic and international public health officials to request that persons with communicable diseases who meet specific criteria and pose a serious threat to the public be restricted from boarding commercial aircraft departing from or arriving in the United States. The public health DNB list is managed by CDC and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). To describe the experience with the public health DNB list since its inception, CDC analyzed data from June 2007 to ...