[IP] CDC wants to track all airline passengers and groups
http://govhealthit.com/article91532-11-23-05-Web
CDC plans flight e-tracking
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BY Bob Brewin
Published on Nov. 23, 2005
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Battling a pandemic disease such as avian flu requires the ability to
quickly track sick people and anyone they have contacted.
In response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials
have proposed new federal regulations to electronically track more
than 600 million U.S. airline passengers a year traveling on more
than 7 million flights through 67 hub airports.
The new regulations, which are available on the CDC's Web site and
will be posted for a 60-day comment period in the Federal Register
starting Nov. 30, would require airlines, travel agents and global
reservations systems to collect personal information that exceeds the
quantity of information currently collected by the Transportation
Security Administration or the Homeland Security Department.
The regulations will require airlines to collect and maintain in an
electronic database the following passenger information:
* First, last and middle names, in addition to suffixes.
* Current home address, including street, apartment number, city,
state/province and ZIP code.
* Mobile, home or pager phone numbers.
* E-mail address.
* Passport or travel document, including the issuing country or
organization.
* Traveling companions or group.
* Flight information, including date, airline, flight number and
return flight details.
* Name, address and phone number of an emergency contact.
The same rules would also apply to passengers on international cruise
lines and international ferry companies at U.S. ports, which the CDC
estimated carry about 75 million passengers a year.
Dr. Marty Cetron, deputy director of the CDC’s Division of Global
Migration and Quarantine, told a press briefing yesterday that the
CDC’s push for the new regulations grew out of the agency’s
frustrating manual data collection efforts during the SARS crisis in
2003.
Lack of detailed electronic passenger manifests “completely paralyzed
our ability to notify people who were onboard together with suspect
SARS cases during this epidemic in a timely way,” Cetron said.CDC
plans flight e-tracking
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Proposed CDC Rule on Control of Communicable Diseases [CDC]
Regulatory Analysis of Proposed Rule [CDC]
GAO Emerging Infectious Diseases Report [GAO]
Flu plan burdens public health agencies [GJIT, print, 11/07/05]
In bird flu watch, CDC searches for warning signs [GHIT, print 10/31/05]
BY Bob Brewin
Published on Nov. 23, 2005
Related Links
Battling a pandemic disease such as avian flu requires the ability to
quickly track sick people and anyone they have contacted.
In response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials
have proposed new federal regulations to electronically track more
than 600 million U.S. airline passengers a year traveling on more
than 7 million flights through 67 hub airports.
The new regulations, which are available on the CDC's Web site and
will be posted for a 60-day comment period in the Federal Register
starting Nov. 30, would require airlines, travel agents and global
reservations systems to collect personal information that exceeds the
quantity of information currently collected by the Transportation
Security Administration or the Homeland Security Department.
The regulations will require airlines to collect and maintain in an
electronic database the following passenger information:
* First, last and middle names, in addition to suffixes.
* Current home address, including street, apartment number, city,
state/province and ZIP code.
* Mobile, home or pager phone numbers.
* E-mail address.
* Passport or travel document, including the issuing country or
organization.
* Traveling companions or group.
* Flight information, including date, airline, flight number and
return flight details.
* Name, address and phone number of an emergency contact.
The same rules would also apply to passengers on international cruise
lines and international ferry companies at U.S. ports, which the CDC
estimated carry about 75 million passengers a year.
Dr. Marty Cetron, deputy director of the CDC’s Division of Global
Migration and Quarantine, told a press briefing yesterday that the
CDC’s push for the new regulations grew out of the agency’s
frustrating manual data collection efforts during the SARS crisis in
2003.
Lack of detailed electronic passenger manifests “completely paralyzed
our ability to notify people who were onboard together with suspect
SARS cases during this epidemic in a timely way,” Cetron said.
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