Follow-up of communicable diseases reported among travellers on aeroplanes
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https://doi.org/10.33321/cdi.2004.28.30Abstract
From time to time health departments will be notified of patients who have been diagnosed with a communicable disease and have travelled in an aeroplane while infectious.
Editorial note:These guidelines have now been replaced by revised guidelines dated 6 December 2006.
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