Okaloosa County BOCC — December 2, 2014 — reading text

FloridaHealth.gov. 10/20/14 Packet Pg. 32  Guidance for Businesses with Employees Returning from Countries Currently Experiencing an Outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease Contents This document provides guidance for businesses with employees returning from countries currently experiencing an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD); http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/. Introduction • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Homeland Security's Customs & Border Protection (CBP) have begun entry screening at five U.S. airports that receive all travelers from the Ebola-affected nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Trained CBP staff will observe travelers for signs of illness, ask them a series of health and exposure questions and provide health information for Ebola and reminders to monitor themselves for symptoms. Trained medical staff will take their temperature with a non- contact thermometer. • If the travelers have symptoms or the health questionnaire reveals possible Ebola exposure, they will be evaluated by a CDC quarantine station public health officer. The public health officer will again take a temperature reading and make a public health assessment. Travelers, who after this assessment, are determined to require further evaluation or monitoring will be referred to the appropriate public health authority. • Travelers from these countries who have neither symptoms/fever nor a known history of exposure will receive health information for self-monitoring. • The CDC will distribute contact information for these screened passengers to the state they are residing in, or traveling to, via Epi-X. • Upon receiving the notification, the Florida Department of Health (DOH), Bureau of Epidemiology, will immediately distribute passenger lists to the county health departments (CHDs) of residence for monitoring as described below. • Please refer to the Interim Guidance for Monitoring and Movement of Persons with Ebola Virus Disease Exposure for recommendations for conditional release and controlled movement of persons potentially exposed to EVD. 1 Version 2.0 29October2014 Packet Pg. 33 What businesses should do: Notification of local CHD for returning employees • To ensure that DOH is aware of persons returning from the Ebola-affected countries by all conveyance types, businesses should notify the local county health department that an employee will be returning from the impacted country and supply contact information including name, telephone numbers, address, and email address. In addition, businesses should also provide the CHD with estimated arrival date and date employee left impacted country. • The CHD will make contact with the person(s) on the list and conduct an in-person risk assessment on their date of arrival in Florida using the DOH EVD risk assessment algorithm 3.5. • An airline employee (pilot or crew) that during the course of travel never left the airport grounds and never stayed overnight in an impacted country OR a employee on a ship who never disembarked from the ship while in an impacted country AND have had no contact with a known or suspected EVD case will not be monitored for 21 days. However, employees should self-monitor and if they develop any symptoms report this to their local CHD. • Definition of employee risk categories o Low risk: Employee returning from Guinea, Liberia, or Sierra Leone who did not have contact with a known or suspect EVD case in the past 21 days. o High risk: Any direct contact or within 3 feet for ≥ 15 minutes of a known or suspect EVD case in the past 21 days regardless of the absence/ use and type of personal protective equipment. • The employee should be provided a 24/7 phone number to contact appropriate CHD staff. • Employees that are considered low or high risk will be monitored by the local CHD for 21 days as identified in the CHD Guidance-Traveler Monitoring document. If you have any additional concerns or questions please contact your local CHD or the Florida Department of Health at 850-245-4401. Additional Considerations: In most cases, low risk employees are able to carry on with day to day activities, although the individual circumstances of each person should be considered. Factors that may prevent someone from returning to daily activities during the monitoring period include their ability to quickly seek immediate medical attention if they develop symptoms, number of daily close contacts, and risk of transmission. 2 Version 2.0 29October2014 Packet Pg. 34  Ebola Awareness Information for Travelers FloridaHealth.gov • Florida Department of Health WHAT IS EBOLA? SYMPTOMS: n Ebola is the cause of viral hemorrhagic fever disease. n Fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, weakness, diarrhea, n It spreads through bodily fluids from a person who is sick with or vomiting, stomach pain, lack of appetite and abnormal bleeding. has died from Ebola, or from exposure to contaminated objects, n May appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to Ebola such as needles. virus, though 8–10 days is most common.  Have you been to Sierra Leone, Guinea or Liberia in the past month? Are you from that area or have you traveled there in the past month? There is a possibility that you may have been exposed to Ebola. Yes, Yes, but I did not have contact with No. No, but I had contact with someone I know someone that has sick with Ebola. someone sick with Ebola. been to an affected area.     Stay calm. Stay calm. Stay calm. Stay calm. Get informed. Get informed. Get informed. Get informed. Contact your Share this county health department. information.     “CONTACT” MEANS YOU CAN’T GET EBOLA IS NOT SPREAD YOU TOUCHED EBOLA THROUGH: LIKE A COLD OR FLU. THESE BODY FLUIDS: YOUR COUNTY HEALTH You can live with a DEPARTMENT WILL WORK Air roommate or attend class Blood WITH YOU TO Water Vomit with a student who has been monitor for fever Food to an affected area Sweat for 21 days. without putting yourself Diarrhea at risk.     You can only get Ebola You can only get Ebola If you have a fever, from contact with from contact with If this defines you, immediately call bodily fluids from: bodily fluids from: immediately call your health care n A person who is sick withn A person who is sick with your county health professional or local or has died from Ebola. or has died from Ebola. department. emergency room. n Exposure to contaminated n Exposure to contaminated objects such as needles. objects such as needles. Local county contact information can be found at FloridaHealth.gov. Packet Pg. 35 11/04/14  BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AGENDA REQUEST DATE: December 2, 2014 TO: Honorable Chairman and Members of the Board FROM: Sunil Harman SUBJECT: Third Amendment to America Airlines Lease at VPS DEPARTMENT: Airport BCC DISTRICT: ALL STATEMENT OF ISSUE: The Board of County Commissioners is requested to approve the Third (3rd) Amendment to the American Airlines Lease at Northwest Florida Regional Airport (VPS). BACKGROUND: American Airlines and US Airways have merged and have requested consolidation of their separate operating locations in the airport's terminal as allowed in Amendment No. 1, Endorsement No. 1 to the Amended and Restated Signatory Airlines' Operating Agreement and Terminal Building Lease. The two operations have consolidated into about one-half of the former Northwest/Vision Airlines location and have agreed to pay for 1,333 square feet during the first year of merged operations. At the end of one year following its beneficial occupancy (August 19, 2014) the airline will be asked to decide if it will lease the remainder of the available office and ticketing area space. If it declines to do so, the space will be made available for use by other carriers. OPTIONS: Approve, Disapprove or Table RECOMMENDATIONS: Airport Staff recommends approval of this Third Amendment to the American Airlines lease agreement. RECOMMENDED BY: APPROVED BY: John Hofstad, Interim County Administrator Packet Pg. 36 Packet Pg. 37 Packet Pg. 38 Packet Pg. 39 Packet Pg. 40 Packet Pg. 41