CDC's travel-notice index is a hierarchy, not a horror list: the current page lists no Level 4 notices, a Level 3 Bundibugyo virus disease notice for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Level 2 notices including Uganda Bundibugyo and Yemen malaria, and Level 1 notices including global dengue and measles. [1]

The paper's June 14 brief on travel notices as trip tasks said a disease name is not yet advice, and Monday's index keeps that rule by separating Level 3 reconsideration of nonessential travel from Level 2 enhanced precautions and Level 1 usual precautions tied to the notice. [1]

Uganda's Bundibugyo notice is not a general anxiety prompt but a contact-behavior checklist: avoid blood, body fluids, sick people, dead bodies, unsafe health-care visits, bats, and nonhuman primates, then monitor for symptoms for 21 days after leaving. [2]

Global dengue asks for a different kit, because CDC's Level 1 notice says dengue is a year-round risk in many places and tells travelers to prevent mosquito bites with repellent, long sleeves, and screened or air-conditioned sleeping spaces. [3]

That is not the same task as checking an MMR record, reconsidering a trip, or reading an Ebola-family notice, which is the service point X usually erases when threat names scare equally and trip tasks do not.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago