Sec. 71.73 Exemption for mails. Subpart F-Particular Requirements Upon Arrival at Ports Under Control of United States 71.81 Applicability. 71.82 Cholera: Vessels and aircraft; things. 71.83 Cholera: Vessels and aircraft; per sons. 71.84 Plague: Vessels and aircraft. 71.85 Plague: Vessels and aircraft; persons; things. 71.86 Smallpox: Persons, general. 71.87 Smallpox: Infected vessels and aircraft; persons. 71.88 Smallpox: Persons; suspects. 71.89 Typhus and relapsing fever: Vessels and aircraft; persons; things. 71.90 Yellow fever: Vessels and aircraft; classification. 71.91 Yellow fever: Vessels and aircraft; persons. Subpart G-Sanitary Inspection: Control of Rodents, Insects, and Other Vermin; Disinfection 71.101 General provisions. 71.102 Disinsection of aircraft. 71.103 Disinsecting and disinfesting vessels. 71.104 Disinsecting and disinfection of persons and things; vessels and aircraft. 71.105 Deratting Certificates: Deratting Exemption Certificates; vessels only. 71.106 Deratting: Aircraft only. 71.107 Issuance of Deratting Certificates and Deratting Exemption Certificates: Approved and designated stations. 71.108 Vessels and aircraft in intercoastal and interstate traffic. 71.109 Application of sanitary measures. Subpart H-Pratique: Vessels and Aircraft 71.121 Ceneral requirement: Vessels only. 71.122 Free pratique: Vessels only. 71.123 Provisional pratique and remand: Vessels only. 71.124 Radio pratique: Vessels only. 71.125 Presentation of pratique: Vessels only. 71.126 Pratique and remand: Aircraft only. 71.127 Notification of remands: Vessels and Sec. 71.503 Advance notice of arrival. 71.504 Emergency or forced landing. 71.505 Special sanitary treatment. 71.506 Applicability of regulations: Penalties. Subpart L-Special Provisions Relating to Ports and Airports 71.601 Applicability. 71.602 Food and drinking water: Ports and airports. 71.603 Disposal of waste matter: Airports and aircraft. 71.604 Designation of sanitary airports. 71.605 Yellow fever areas: Sanitary requirements: Ports and airports. 71.606 Perimeter: Airports only. 71.607 Withdrawal of designation. 71.608 Cholera and plague: Persons unloading vessels or aircraft. 71.609 Designation of international airports. 71.700 Appendix-Excerpts from International Sanitary Regulations (World Health Organization Regulations No. 2). AUTHORITY: Sec. 215, 58 Stat. 690, as amended; 42 U.S.C. 216; secs. 361-369, 58 Stat. 703-706; 42 U.S.C. 264-272, E.O. 9708, 11 FR 3241, 3 CFR 1943-1948 Comp.; E.O. 10399, 17 FR 8648, 3 CFR, 1948-1953 Comp.; E.O. 10532, 19 FR 3209, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., unless otherwise noted. SOURCE: 21 FR 9870, Dec. 12, 1956, unless otherwise noted. or indirectly to a well person from an affected person, animal, or arthropod (including insecta and arachnida) or through the agency of an intermediate host, vector or the inanimate environment. (c) Contamination. The presence of undesirable substance or material which may contain pathogenic microorganisms. (d) Day. A period of 24 hours. (e) Deratting Certificate. A certificate issued with respect to a vessel by the competent health authority for a port, in the form prescribed by the International Sanitary Regulations, recording the inspection and deratting of the vessel. (f) Deratting Exemption Certificate. A certificate issued with respect to a vessel by the competent health authority for a port, in the form prescribed by the International Sanitary Regulations, recording the inspection and exemption from deratting of the vessel which has a negligible number of rodents on board. (g) Disinfection. The act of rendering anything free from the causal agents of disease. (h) Disinfestation. The act of destroying the vectors of a communicable disease. (i) Disinsecting. The act of destroying insects or other arthropod vectors of a communicable disease. (j) Immunity. The condition of being protected against a particular disease, either as a result of artificial immunization or through a previous attack of the disease in question. (k) Incubation period. The period between the implanting of disease organisms in a susceptible person and the appearance of clinical manifestations of the disease. (1) Infected local area. A local area (as defined in the International Sanitary Regulations) where: (1) There is a nonimported case of cholera or smallpox; or (2) There is a nonimported case of plague, or there is plague infection among rodents; or (3) There is a nonimported case of yellow fever, or there is activity of yellow fever virus in vertebrates other than man; or (4) There is an epidemic of typhus or relapsing fever. (m) Infected person. Any person who is suffering from a quarantinable disease or who is considered by the medical officer in charge to be infected with such a disease. (n) Infestation. The condition of harboring vectors. (0) International Sanitary Regulations. The International Sanitary Regulations (World Health Organization Regulations No. 2) adopted by the Fourth World Health Assembly on May 25, 1951. (p) Infected vessel or aircraft. See under particular quarantinable diseases in Subpart F of this part. (q) Isolation. (1) When applied to a person or group of persons, the separation of that person or group of persons from other persons, except the health staff on duty, in such a manner as to prevent the spread of infection. (2) When applied to animals, the separation of an animal or group of animals from other animals or vectors of disease in such manner as to prevent the spread of infection. (r) Medical officer in charge. The medical officer of the Public Health Service responsible for the application of these regulations at a designated place or in a designated area. (s) Port under the control of the United States. Any seaport or airport in the United States, its territories or possessions other than the Canal Zone. (t) Pratique. A certificate issued by a quarantine officer releasing or provisionally releasing a vessel or aircraft from quarantine. (u) Quarantine. The detention of a person, vessel, aircraft or other conveyance, animal or thing, in such place and for such period of time as may be specified in the regulations in this part. (v) Quarantine officer. A medical officer or other specially trained employee assigned to quarantine duty by the Surgeon General. (w) Quarantinable diseases. The specific communicable diseases: cholera, plague, smallpox, and yellow fever. (x) Relapsing fever. Louse-borne relapsing fever. (y) Rodents. Gnawing mammals capable of transmitting or harboring quarantinable diseases. (z) Surgeon General. The Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. (aa) Surveillance. The temporary supervision of a person who has been released from quarantine by the medical officer in charge upon the condition that he will submit himself to further medical examination or inquiry as required. (bb) Suspect. A person who is considered by the medical officer in charge as having been exposed to infection by a quarantinable disease and to be capable of spreading that disease. (cc) Suspected vessel or aircraft. See under particular quarantinable diseases in Subpart F of this part. (dd) Typhus. Louse-borne typhus. (ee) Valid. (1) With respect to a Deratting Certificate or Deratting Exemption Certificate issued for a vessel, a certificate issued by the competent health authority for a port not more than 6 months before presentation of the Certificate to the quarantine officer, or if the vessel is proceeding to a port designated or approved for the issuance of such Certificates, not more than 7 months before such presentation. (2) With respect to a certificate of vaccination, a certificate presented within the applicable period of immunity prescribed in § 71.3. (ff) Vector. An animal (including insects), plant, or thing which conveys or is capable of conveying pathogenic organisms from a person or animal to another person or animal. (gg) Yellow fever receptive area. An area where the yellow fever virus does not exist but where Aedes aegypti or any other domiciliary or peri-domiciliary vector of yellow fever is present and development of the disease, if introduced, would thus be possible. [22 FR 6461, Aug. 13, 1957, as amended at 38 FR 16861, June 27, 1973] § 71.2 Periods of isolation and surveillance. Except as otherwise provided with respect to infected persons, where isolation or surveillance is authorized in this part the period of such isolation or surveillance shall be reckoned as hereinafter provided and shall not exceed the following appropriate incubation period of the quarantinable dis eases: (a) Plague: 6 days. § 71.3 Periods of immunity. The following shall be the recognized period of immunity after successful immunization; in the case of yellow fever, the vaccine must be approved by the World Health Organization: Cholera: 6 months, beginning 6 days after the first injection of the vaccine and on date of a revaccination during such period of 6 months. Smallpox: 3 years, beginning 8 days after successful primary vaccination and immediately on revaccination. Yellow fever: 6 years, beginning 10 days after date of original vaccination and from date of a revaccination within such period of 6 years. § 71.4 Compliance with conditions of sur veillance. (a) Every person who is placed under surveillance in accordance with the provisions of this part shall, during the period of surveillance: (1) Give such information relative to his health and his intended destination and report to designated physicians or medical officers at such times for such medical examinations as may be required; (2) Upon arrival at any address other than that stated as his intended destination when placed under surveillance, report his address to the medical officer in charge at the port or place of his entry. (b) A person under surveillance shall, prior to departure from the United States, inform the medical officer in charge at the port or place of his entry, or departure, and such officer shall immediately notify the health authority of the place to which the person is proceeding. (b) If the medical officer in charge has reason to believe that a departing vessel, aircraft or land conveyance has or may have on board possible agents of infection or vectors of a quarantinable disease, he shall notify the master, commander, or person in charge and offer to have performed such disinsecting, disinfection, or other measures as are necessary. He shall, if he considers that a risk of infection exists on board at the time of departure, notify all persons proposing to embark upon such ship, aircraft or conveyance and the health authorities at the next port of call or destination of the conditions aboard such vessel, aircraft or conveyance. § 71.6 Sanitary measures previously applied. Any sanitary measure, other than medical examination, which has been applied prior to the arrival of a vessel or aircraft with respect to the quarantinable diseases shall not be repeated unless: (a) After the departure of a vessel or aircraft from the port or airport where the measures were applied there is or has been on board an infected person or suspect, or there has occurred any other incident of epidemiological significance either in that port or airport or on board the vessel or aircraft which, in the judgment of the medical officer in charge, requires further application of any such measure, or (b) The medical officer in charge has ascertained on the basis of definite evidence that the individual measure so applied was not substantially effective. § 71.7 Certificate of measures applied. (a) The medical officer in charge shall, upon request, issue free of charge to a carrier a certificate specifying the sanitary measures applied to a vessel, an aircraft or a land conveyance, the parts thereof treated, the methods employed, and the reasons why the measures were applied. In the case of an aircraft this information shall on request be entered instead in the General Declaration. (b) The medical officer in charge shall, upon request, issue free of charge: (1) To any traveler a certificate specifying the date of his arrival or departure and the sanitary measures applied to him and his baggage; (2) To the consignor, the consignee, or the carrier, or their respective agents, a certificate specifying the sanitary measures applied to any goods. § 71.8 Designation of vaccinating centers; authenticating stamps. (a) Yellow fever vaccinating centers, authorized to issue certificates of vaccination against yellow fever, are designated by the Surgeon General. Such designation is made upon application therefor and the presentation of evidence satisfactory to the Surgeon General that a substantial need for the designation exists in the area to be served by the applicant and that the applicant has adequate facilities and professionally trained personnel for the handling, storage, and administration of a safe, potent and pure yellow fever vaccine. (b) A designated yellow fever vaccinating center shall comply with instructions issued by the Surgeon General or by a delegated officer or employee of the Service for the handling, storage and administration of yellow fever vaccine. If a designated center fails to comply with such instructions, the Surgeon General may, after notice to the center, revoke such designation. (c) International certificates of vaccination against yellow fever issued by Public Health Service facilities or Department of Defense medical facilities shall be authenticated by the official 90-149 0-82--5 |