Airports and Air-travel

SOP for death/stowaway on board

Hello everybody, just want to know how do you handle any death (among crew/passenger) or stowaway on board? 

Ebola outbreak West Africa 2014 – specific measures at international airline hubs?

Currently, it is considered unlikely that a person infected with Ebola virus boards an airplane. However, since the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia is ongoing and its extent is unclear such a scenario may become more likely.

It may be reasonable that flight passengers coming from the outbreak area are being advised on what to do in case they may have been exposed to Ebola virus in the affected areas and are experiencing clinical symptoms suggestive of Ebola virus disease.

 

Publication type: 
News
Publication date: 
Jeudi, Juin 19, 2014

EU Airsan Project - Newsletter n°3, June 2014

The AIRSAN newsletter is available for download on the AIRSAN website :
http://www.airsan.eu/Portals/0/docs/AIRSAN_Newsletter_2014-06_Issue_3.pdf

Animals at borders

Dear friends and colleagues,

I'd like to share with you these two photos taken recently, and  completely by chance, at an airport when I was abroad. Besides the fact of being heartbreaking, these photos raise more than one interrogation:

Publication type: 
Events
Publication date: 
Dimanche, Avril 20, 2014

WHO Informal consultation meeting on draft technical guidance and 4th PAGNet meeting, 14-17 April, 2014, Lyon, France

WHO informal consultation meeting on draft technical guidance, and the 4th Public Health & International Travel And Transport - Ports, Airports And Ground Crossings Network (PAGnet) meeting was held on April 14-17th 2014.

The meetings were made possible with the support of the European Commission on Development and Cooperation (EU DEVCO), it brought together more than eighty national experts from countries across six WHO administrative regions, international bodies and local partners

 

WHO statement on the meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee concerning the international spread of wild poliovirus

Dear All,

IHR Emergency Committe has published on may 5th a statement about the international spread of wild poliovirus with recommendations on vaccination and issuance of the International Certificate of Vaccination. 

Are there some country requiring the International Certificate of Vaccination against polio from travellers from States currently exporting wild poliovirus?  

Regards,

 

Publication type: 
Publications
Publication date: 
Lundi, Mai 5, 2014

WHO Bulletin, International Health Regulations (2005) : taking stock, May 2014

WHO Bulletin, Volume 92, Number 5, May 2014, 309-384

Publication type: 
Publications
Publication date: 
Vendredi, Novembre 8, 2013

EU Airsan Project - Newsletter n°1, October 2013

The AIRSAN newsletter is available for download on the AIRSAN website (<http://www.airsan.eu/Portals/0/docs/AIRSAN_Newsletter_2013-10_Issue_1.pdf>) where you can as well subscribe to receive future issues (<http://www.airsan.eu/AIRSAN/NewsletterSubscription.aspx>).

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