Mangili Alexandra, Gendreau Mark A
Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Lancet. 2005;365(9463):989-96. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)71089-8.
Because of the increasing ease and affordability of air travel and mobility of people, airborne, food-borne, vector-borne, and zoonotic infectious diseases transmitted during commercial air travel are an important public health issue. Heightened fear of bioterrorism agents has caused health officials to re-examine the potential of these agents to be spread by air travel. The severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak of 2002 showed how air travel can have an important role in the rapid spread of newly emerging infections and could potentially even start pandemics. In addition to the flight crew, public health officials and health care professionals have an important role in the management of infectious diseases transmitted on airlines and should be familiar with guidelines provided by local and international authorities.
由于航空旅行日益便捷且费用可承受，以及人员流动性增加，商业航空旅行期间传播的空气传播、食源性、病媒传播和人畜共患传染病成为一个重要的公共卫生问题。对生物恐怖主义制剂的恐惧加剧，促使卫生官员重新审视这些制剂通过航空旅行传播的可能性。2002年严重急性呼吸综合征的爆发表明，航空旅行在新出现感染的快速传播中可发挥重要作用，甚至有可能引发大流行。除了机组人员外，公共卫生官员和医疗保健专业人员在管理航空公司传播的传染病方面也发挥着重要作用，并且应该熟悉当地和国际当局提供的指南。
