Infection Spread
Air travel has important role in rapid spread of newly emerging infections
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 17th, 2005
According to a recent report published in the journal Lancet, "Because of the increasing ease and affordability of air travel and mobility of people, airborne, food-borne, vector-borne, and zoonotic infectious diseases transmitted during commercial air travel are an important public health issue.
"Heightened fear of bioterrorism agents has caused health officials to re-examine the potential of these agents to be spread by air travel. The severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak of 2002 showed how air travel can have an important role in the rapid spread of...
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