Control of Infectious Diseases

This chapter deals with the management of persistent infectious agents on board ship. There have been a number of outbreaks of acute infectious gastrointestinal illnesses (AGI), such as those caused by norovirus (e.g., United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention 2002), and acute respiratory illnesses (ARI), such as influenza (e.g., Brotherton et al. 2003), on ships caused by communicable infectious agents.