Ebola Updates

Precautions Against Virus

Ebola Guidance for Airlines: Interim Guidance about Ebola Infection for Airline Crews, Cleaning Personnel, and Cargo Personnel
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta <www.cdc.gov/quarantine/air/managing-sick-travelers/ebola-guidance-airlines.html>. Sept. 19, 2014.

This page on the public website maintained by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides airline personnel access to the latest authoritative information about Ebola — which health care professionals call Ebola virus disease. As a preliminary point, it says that “the risk of spreading Ebola to passengers or crew on an aircraft is low because Ebola spreads by direct contact with infected body fluids. Ebola does not spread through the air like flu.”

Precautions against such direct contact, however, rely on aircraft crewmembers to always follow basic infection control precautions and procedures �…