Definitions
Communicable diseases are illnesses that spread from one person to another or from an animal to a person, or from a surface or a food. Diseases can be transmitted during air travel through:
- direct contact with a sick person
- respiratory droplet spread from a sick person sneezing or coughing
- contact with blood or other body fluids
- breathing in viruses or bacteria in the air
- contact with a contaminated surface or object
- bites from insects or animals that can transmit the disease
- ingestion of contaminated food or water