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Current infectiosus risk in international maritime traffic

This paper examines the significance of current infectious risks in international maritime traffic. Maritime traffic differs from other types of transport by its speed, so some diseases with short incubation may manifest on the ship, which requires an intervention of the second mate in cases of commercial navy ships on which there are no doctors. In addition to infectious risks, this paper also considers preventive measures that need to be implemented. The frameworks for the implementation of preventive measures in maritime transport are the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) and the Guide to Ship Sanitation (WHO). Unlike the recent past and the time of quarantine diseases such as smallpox, cholera, epidemic typhus and haemorrhagic fever, today these diseases no longer present a public health concern. In the authors’ opinion, one of potentially larger issues among seafarers is protection from malaria and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. Some research show that the number of seafarers infected with imported malaria is declining in Croatia. The issue related to malaria chemoprophylaxis is the need for long-term use of antimalarials, which is the reason why seafarers avoid it. Infectious diseases that may occur on cruisers are not considered because the population on cruisers has its own specificities that may affect the incidence of communicable diseases and, in addition to that, these ships are obliged to have a doctor on-board.

Maritime traffic; infectious risk; Croatia.

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