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Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

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Air Evacuation under High-Level Biosafety Containment: The Aeromedical Isolation Team1

George W. Christopher

and Edward M. Eitzen

Author affiliations: U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA

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Table 2

Dimensions of portable isolators

Isolator	Length (cm)	Width (cm)	Height (cm)	Weight (kg)
Stretcher	221	69	86	45
Vickers aircraft transport	221	91	152	112

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¹An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 84th Panel Symposium of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Aerospace Medical Panel, Aeromedical Support Issues in Contingency Operations, Session VII, Control of Communicable Diseases, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1 October 1997.

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