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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday began distributing cards at airports receiving flights returning directly from Hong Kong warning travelers returning to the United States from Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, People�s Republic of China and Hanoi, Vietnam that they may have been exposed to cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

The cards are being handed out by quarantine officials at Chicago, O�Hare International Airport; Los Angeles; New York City, JFK International Airport; Newark; and San Francisco. These airports are the only U.S. airports receiving direct flights from Hong Kong. No U.S. airports receive direct flights from Hanoi or the Guangdong Province. CDC officials expect to expand the distribution of cards to Anchorage, Alaska and the territory of Guam later today.

The travel cards warn those returning from the three areas that they should monitor their health for at least seven days. They are also advised to contact their physicians if they become ill with a fever accompanied by a cough or difficulty in breathing.

The cards also offer guidance designed to assist physicians in making a diagnosis by advising travelers to tell their physicians about recent travel to the affected regions, and whether they have been in contact with individuals who displayed symptoms of SARS.

As of March 15, 2003, the CDC had received reports of SARS cases in Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, People�s Republic of China; Hanoi, Vietnam and Canada, Singapore and Thailand. For that reason the World Health Organization has issued emergency guidance for travelers and airlines so that persons displaying symptoms of the illness can receive immediate health care and can be brought to the attention of public health authorities. These individuals are also advised against traveling while ill.

The CDC advises physicians and other clinicians to be alert for travelers who:

Have a fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or higher;

One or more symptoms of respiratory illness including cough, shortness of breath, difficulty in breathing, hypoxia (deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching tissues of the body), X-rays indicating the presence of pneumonia, or respiratory distress; AND

One or more of the following:

History of travel to Hong Kong or Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, or Hanoi, Vietnam within seven days of symptom onset;

Close contact with persons with respiratory illness having the described travel history. Close contact includes having cared for, lived with, or had direct contact with respiratory secretions and body fluids of a person with SARS.

Additionally, airlines should:

Alert the destination airport of any passengers meeting the case definition criteria;

Arriving passengers who are symptomatic should be referred to health authorities for assessment and care;

Aircraft passengers and crew should be informed of the person�s status as a suspect case of SARS;

The passengers and crew should provide all contact information for how passengers can be reached for the subsequent 14 days to airport health authorities.

CDC advises that persons planning elective or nonessential travel to Hong Kong and Guangdong Province, People�s Republic of China and Hanoi, Vietnam may wish to postpone their trips until further notice. Detailed information can be found on CDC�s Traveler�s Health Website at http://www.cdc.gov/travel/.

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Discount cruises - How Repositioning Cruises Can Help You Save On Your Next Cruise Vacation
By Guru Bhakt

If you are planning a cruise trip and are wondering just how to save money on your cruise tickets, then this might be one article you might definitely want to read !

When it comes to discount cruise travel, here's...

The "Million Dollar" Discount Cruise Tip

Buying cruise tickets at a discount is all about buying unsold inventory on cruise ships ... if a cruise liner cannot sell all of the tickets in time for the cruise, then they usually offer huge discounts on their tickets. And if you are the lucky one who happens to be at the right place at the right time, then you most possibly will end up with discounted tickets ...

So the question to ask would be...

When do cruise liners end up with unsold inventory?

If there are more people willing to travel by a cruise liner than what the capacity of the cruise liner is, then chances are that the cruise liner will offer no discounts ... but this is not what happens always. Frequently, cruise liners end up with unsold inventory ... and here is when that usually happens -

Repositioning Cruises:

Knowing about repositioning cruises itself an save you a lot of money and get you tickets at steep discounts. Here is what repositioning cruises are all about...

Cruise lines have to reposition their ships either north (towards Alaska) in the summer or south (towards the Caribbean) in the winter. This is because Alaska is a popular cruise destination in the summer and the Caribbean is a very popular cruise destination in the winter.

And when the cruise lines reposition their ships, they might have to sail without passengers - lots of unsold inventory. And instead of sailing without passengers, many offer huge discounts on the price of cruise tickets.

And here is one question all this raises...

Just how to tell if a cruise ship might feature a repositioning cruise?

Well, all you may have to do is know which ships spend the summer in Alaska. Most of these ships might feature a repositioning cruise to the Caribbean in the winter...

And many cruise ships that spend the winter basking in the warm Caribbean sun might feature repositioning cruises to Alaska in the summer.

Also, if you are interested in repositioning cruises to Europe, then you might want to know that many cruise ships that offer Europe cruises in the summer reposition to sunny Caribbean in the winter, and then reposition to Europe in early summer.

But there's also a downside to repositioning cruises - ships that are repositioning make fewer port visits and spend a lot more days at sea. Now, if what you really want to be doing is to see lots of different places and experience lots of different cultures, then a repositioning cruise may not be right for you.

If you are interested in repositioning cruises in the summer, here are a few:

* The Carnival Liberty crosses the Atlantic from the warm Caribbean sometime in late April 2006, cruise in the sunny Mediterranean in summer, and plans to sail across the Atlantic in the fall.

* The Norwegian cruise line is offering several repositioning cruises on its website.

We will be taking a look at several other ways to avail discounts on your cruise vacations in the next two articles.

Gurubhakt is a writer and publisher who has a travel website that discusses among other things how to buy cruise tickets at steep discounts. If interested in discounted cruises, you might want to see http://www.ace-cruise-vacations.com.

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