Traduction de «nouvelle maladie transmissible » (Français → Anglais) :

The new act will help ensure Canadians are better protected against the import of dangerous communicable diseases by: requiring carriers to report all instances of illnesses and death on board before arrival in Canada; requiring travellers to report on arrival to screening officers or quarantine officers if they have a communicable disease or have been in contact with such a person, the method used is screening technologies at Canadian ports of entry; and requiring those travellers arriving in Canada who are suspected of having a da ...[+++]ngerous communicable disease to undergo an initial health assessment and a medical examination if necessary.

(4) The list of diseases or health issues selected for surveillance should be altered in response to changes in disease prevalence and in response to the emergence of new communicable diseases threatening public health.

d) support, in particular within the framework of the network for epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases, exchange of information and knowledge on good practice for risk communication to the public on emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases such as vCJD;

(c) information on unusual epidemic phenomena or new communicable diseases of unknown origin;

- on new communicable diseases of unknown origin in non-member countries;

1. RECALLING the new Transatlantic Agreement concluded on 3 December 1995, which provides for the creation of a Task Force to develop and implement an effective global early warning and response system for communicable diseases; 2. RECALLING the procedure agreed between the Council and the Commission at the Council meeting on 12 November 1996, on the information of Council bodies on the work of the Task Force; 3. WELCOMES the progress made in the exploratory work of the three working parties set up by the Task Force as established at the 3rd meeting of the Task Force on 22 and 23 October 1997, in Luxembourg, and expresses its support ...[+++] for the continuation of that work; 4. EMPHASIZES how important it is for this initiative, which will help to strengthen international cooperation in the field, to be developed in a spirit of mutual collaboration and reciprocity; 5. EMPHASIZES also the importance, in this context, of appropriate coordination between the activities of the Task Force and those of the WHO in the field of transmissible diseases; 6. AGREES that the work of the Task Force should be closely coordinated with the systems of the Member States and with the future Community network for the epidemiological surveillance and control of communicable diseases; 7. PROPOSES to follow the Task Force's work closely with a view to the development of structured cooperation in a subsequent stage; 8. WISHES specific guidelines for the continuation of this work, together with a description of the resources required for its implementation, to be submitted to it in time for its next meeting on health matters.