Contagious Disease

Elite Medical Team Airlifts Patients with Potentially Lethal, Contagious Infections

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 3rd, 1999

A U.S. Army team stands poised to evacuate patients anywhere in the world who may have a possibly fatal infectious disease (or who may have been affected by biological weapons) and bring them back to the United States for diagnosis and treatment.

The U.S. Army's Aeromedical Isolation Team rapidly and safely can evacuate a limited number of patients with potentially fatal infectious diseases to a safe facility, according to an article in the March 1999 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Suppose that an American civilian or military scientist working abroad on a field study...

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