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Is Compulsory Overseas Medical Screening Of Migrants Justifiable?

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 8th, 1997

In 1994, 22 million non-immigrant travelers were admitted to the United States, but compulsory medical screening examinations were given only to the approximately 800,000 immigrants who intended to stay here.

In this era of jet travel, the relationship between migration and the transmission of communicable disease is tenuous. Yet countries around the world continue to submit migrants to compulsory medical screening examinations as a last step in the migration process.

In an article in Public Health Reports, published by the U.S. Public Health Service (September/October, 1997;112(5):396-402), Jacqueline Weekers, medical administrator with the...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-09-08)

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