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2005-11-22 Science & Technology

CDC sets up quarentine stations at airports

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Posted by Steve White 2005-11-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The CDC has set up quarantine stations at 18 U.S. airports to monitor and respond to potential outbreaks.

Completely useless and an utter waste, anyone aboard an aircraft who's infected, and everyone, showing symptoms or not, is a carrier.
Only semi-sure protection is to stop all flights from an infected area, that will NOT happen.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-11-22 08:26|| 2005-11-22 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 you'd better have your ducks in a row and be of strong mind.
Dont be a coward.
Its a good day to die.

Posted by bk 2005-11-22 10:04|| 2005-11-22 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, it does help. It's all a matter of timing.

First of all, the quarantine station is there for the entire crew and passengers if someone is stricken with the flu, or shows symptoms, during the flight.

Second, and this is being done, infra-red cameras are being put up to detect if anyone is running a fever. They may run a fever for quite a while before showing other symptoms.

Both of these put pressure on the window of "infected-communicable-showing symptoms" of the flu, which means that there are only a few hours before the flight in which they could catch the disease and not get picked up at some point.

Finally, the quarantine station acts as a public health clearinghouse of information. For example, when someone comes down with the flu, and the local authorities discover that they had just arrived in country, they would contact the quarantine station to get the manifest of the other passengers and crew.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-11-22 10:25|| 2005-11-22 10:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Moose is right. All containment and control measures are additive and reduce the level of onward transmission. Get the level of onward tranmission (termed RO) below 1 and an outbreak dies out.

What we know of past pandemics says initially transmission is, and for a considerable period, not that efficient (i.e. RO is not that much over 1).

The chances IMO of relatively modest containment activities in the early stages of the pandemic of stopping outbreaks is very good. And if even if the chances are not good of containing outbreaks, not to try would be criminally irresponsible.

Posted by phil_b 2005-11-22 16:44|| 2005-11-22 16:44|| Front Page Top

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