Anyone travelling overseas should be offered vaccination for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza.
Domestic and international air travel advice for health professionals to give to probable or confirmed cases of pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza.
Persons who meet the clinical case definition above should be advised to remain at home for either 7 days or until resolution of fever (whichever is the longer). The period of 7 days can be reduced to 3 days from the commencement of treatment or prophylaxis with antiviral drugs.
Initiating travel plans
This means that any travel, including domestic and international air travel, should be avoided until the period of isolation as described above is complete.
On international travel, persons may be subject to border screening in their arrival destination, and may be subject to quarantine procedures at that destination, including isolation and restriction of movements.
Onward travel plans
Where a person has been identified as a case during travel (such as at airport border screening, or though identification procedures on a sea cruise) and where there is onward ticketed travel:
Confirmed cases should not travel but stay in isolation for 7 days.
Where travel is 4 hours or less, probable or suspected cases can travel if they wear a mask and then go into home isolation pending results of testing.
