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CDC wants to track all airline passengers and groups
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:06:12 -0500
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RELATED LINKS 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 LinksBattling 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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RELATED LINKS 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 LinksBattling 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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