title: Aviation medicine.
abstract: There is debate about whether pilots infected with the human immunodeficiency virus should be permitted to pilot an aircraft. Approximately three in-flight medical emergencies occur each day, with physicians, flying as passengers, responding to 85% of them. There is no evidence that tuberculosis is any more likely to be contracted on a commercial airliner than on any other public conveyance.
authors.affiliation: Aerospace Medical Association, Alexandria, Va.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Rayman
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D011634:Public Health; D014481:United States