State Department, WHO, and CDC Travel Warnings, Public Announcements, Travel Guidance, Etc
Travel Warnings are issued when the State Department decides, based on all relevant information, to recommend that Americans avoid travel to a certain country. The following have been issued since BP's most recent update:
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State Department Travel Warnings, Public Announcements, and Consular Information Sheets
| Algeria | 03/08/04 |
| Colombia | 03/03/04 |
| Haiti | 02/27/04 |
| Libya | 03/05/04 |
Public Announcementson Significant Security Risks are a means to disseminate information about terrorist threats or certain other relatively short-term and/or transnational conditions. The following has been issued since BP's most recent update:
| Venezuela | 02/27/04 |
Consular Information Sheets are available for every country of the world and include a variety of information. The following have been issued since BP's most recent update:
| Antigua and Barbuda | 03/04/04 |
| Djibouti | 03/05/04 |
| Dominica | 03/04/04 |
| French Guiana | 03/04/04 |
| Gabon | 03/01/04 |
| Mozambique | 03/01/04 |
| Netherlands | 03/05/04 |
| Papua New Guinea | 03/02/04 |
| Sierra Leone | 03/01/04 |
| St. Kitts & Nevis | 03/04/04 |
| Solomon Islands | 03/02/04 |
| Vanuatu | 03/02/04 |
| Yemen | 03/05/04 |
These and other travel warnings, public announcements, and consular information sheets are available at http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html
WHO and CDC Guidance
World Health Organization. The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued the following updates since BP's most recent update:
Avian Influenza A(H5N1) - Situation (poultry) in Asia (Update 31, dated March 2, 2004)
Avian Influenza A(H5N1) - Situation (human) in Thailand (Update 32, dated March 9, 2004)
Dengue fever in Indonesia (dated March 5, 2004)
Yellow Fever in Liberia (dated March 4, 2004)
These and other disease outbreak-related updates are available on the WHO's Web site at http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued the following documents related to avian influenza since BP's most recent update:
Interim Guidance for Airline Flight Crews and Persons Meeting Passengers Arriving from Areas with Avian Influenza (released February 18, 2004)
Interim Recommendations for Persons with Possible Exposure to Avian Influenza During Outbreaks Among Poultry in the United States (dated February 24, 2004)
These and other avian influenza documents are available on the CDC's Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/avian/index.htm
(See ITT's Online Archives or 02/27/04 news, 04022745, for most recent previous BP summary of State Department travel warnings, public announcements, and consular information sheets, as well as WHO and CDC releases.)