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            • entry screening
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            • The public health measures implemented at points of entry (ports, airports, ground crossings) on travelers (crew and passengers) arriving to a country, with the purpose to assess the exposure to a biological agent (bacterium, virus, parasite) and/or the presence of symptoms. National Center for Biotechnology Infor.
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            • Despite the ineffectiveness of entry and exit screening measures, authors reported several important concomitant positive effects that their impact is difficult to assess, including discouraging travel of ill persons, raising awareness, and educating the traveling public and maintaining operation of flights from/to the affected areas. - PubMed by
            • Entry screening, done on arrival at the destination airport, can be an opportunity to gather contact information that is useful if it turns out an infection did spread during a flight and to give travelers guidance on what to do if they become ill. - Science mag by
            • Entry screening is part of a layered approach used with other public health measures already in place to detect arriving travelers who are sick (such as detection and reporting of ill travelers by airlines during travel and referral of ill travelers arriving at a US port of entry by CBP) to slow and reduce the spread of any disease into the United States. - Centers for Disease Control by
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            • 入境筛查
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            • 一个国家或地区在入境点针对入境旅客进行的医学筛查措施 Own research - by Frank Feng
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            • 以往疫情的证据表明，入境筛查的有效性并不确定，但可以通过向来自受影响国家/地区的旅行者提供信息来支持风险沟通战略，以降低急性呼吸道感染的总体风险，并使其在出现与感染相符的症状时能尽早就医。 - WHO by Frank Feng
            • 多个国家近期已经采取入境筛查措施。世卫组织鼓励采取这类措施的国家共享所吸取的经验和教训。在出境筛查基础上加设入境筛查这一做法可能在减少国际传播方面所发挥的作用有限。应当对其优缺点作出认真考虑。 - WHO by Frank Feng
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