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Military Aircraft Quarantine Prevention: Strengths & Challenges

Military Aircraft Quarantine Prevention: Strengths & Challenges. Capt Timothy Davis HQ AMC/A7OO. Military Aircraft Quarantine Prevention. Purpose: Provide a current synopsis of how pests are prevented from being disseminated in military aircraft operations. Overview. Background Strengths

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Military Aircraft Quarantine Prevention: Strengths & Challenges

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  1. Military Aircraft Quarantine Prevention: Strengths & Challenges Capt Timothy Davis HQ AMC/A7OO

  2. Military Aircraft Quarantine Prevention • Purpose: Provide a current synopsis of how pests are prevented from being disseminated in military aircraft operations.

  3. Overview • Background • Strengths • Challenges

  4. Background • Problem: Aircraft have the potential to unintentionally move organisms. • Military requirements • Air Mobility Command assets

  5. Background • Solutions: • Airbase vector/pest management • Aircraft disinsection

  6. Airbase Vector/Pest Management

  7. Aircraft Disinsection

  8. Aircraft Disinsection • Procedure: • Situation based • Label requirements • WHO approved procedures

  9. Aircraft Disinsection • Aerosol Spraying (WHO Recommended) • Blocks away: use of aerosols* prior to take-off with overhead racks, lockers and toilets open (in practice most commonly done in flight soon after take off) • Pre-flight & Top of descent: Cabin sprayed prior to passenger boarding with 2% permethrin followed by in-flight spraying with 2% d-phenothrin as aircraft start its descent to destination • Pre-embarkation: suggested but not yet recommended by WHO: use of a mixture of 2% permethrin (residual ) plus 2% d-phenothrin (fast acting) • Cargo holds: have to be sprayed by ground staff prior to door closure using recommended aerosols* * 2% permethrin cis/trans ratio 25/75 or 2% d-phenothrin, 100 g cans, 35 g of formulation per 100 m3

  10. Aircraft Disinsection • Residual sprays (cabin, flight deck, lockers, cargo holds) • Only permethrin currently recommended (cis/trans ratio 25/75) • Dosage: 0.2 g a.i./m2 • Dilution: 10 ml of dilution per m2 • All surfaces to be treated • Treatment at intervals < 2 months • Areas receiving substantial cleaning require “touch-up” spraying based on weekly inspections. Implies use of a fluorescent dye mixed with insecticide and UV lamp for inspections.

  11. Strengths • Japanese Beetle Control

  12. Strengths • OEF Support

  13. Challenges • Operation Unified Response

  14. Challenges • Operation Deep Freeze

  15. Conclusions • Compile regulations/guidance and list of POCs all in one location • Products/labels to disinsect manned aircraft

  16. Questions?

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