Publications

WHO Ad-hoc Advisory Group on aircraft disinsection for controlling the international spread of vector-borne diseases, Geneva, Switzerland, 21 to 22 April 2016 - Meeting report has been published on WHO website
http://www.who.int/ihr/publications/WHO_HSE_GCR_2016_12/en/

Handbook for Vector surveillance and control at ports, airports and ground crossings has been published
http://www.who.int/ihr/publications/9789241549592_eng/en/

The second edition of the European Manual for Hygiene Standards and Communicable Disease Surveillance on Passenger Ships is now complete and an electronic copy is available for download from the following link:
http://www.shipsan.eu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=qKzXdLZpIz0%3d&tabid=146&portalid=0&mid=64

List of Authorized ports to issue Ship Sanitation Certificates has been updated for Brazil, Spain, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom. You will find the new published list of authorized ports here:

http://www.who.int/ihr/ports_airports/portslanding/en/

Please find updated IHR list of authorized ports which includes modification requested by Malaysia, Russian Federation, Thailand, United Kingdom of Great Britain and NorthernIreland. 

http://www.who.int/ihr/ports_airports/portslanding/en/

IATA had improved the request form for passenger contact tracing. It is now available on line at http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/safety/health/Pages/index.aspx, for national authorities to request this information to airlines.

ENGLISH : http://www.who.int/ihr/publications/WHO_HSE_GCR_LYO_2014.12/en/

FRENCH : http://www.who.int/ihr/publications/WHO_HSE_GCR_LYO_2014.12/fr/

RUSSIAN : http://www.who.int/ihr/publications/WHO_HSE_GCR_LYO_2014.12/ru/

Article published on Lancet, October 21, 2014 ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673614618286 ) assessing the potential for international dissemination of Ebola. Authors analysed International Air Transport Association data for worldwide flight schedules between Sept 1, 2014, and Dec 31, 2014, and historic traveller flight itinerary data from 2013 to describe expected global population movements via commercial air travel out of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and the potential risk of disease spread by air travel.