Policies and Planning to Minimize the Spread of Disease: Transmission Patterns of Mosquito-Borne Infectious Diseases During Air Travel: Passengers, Pathogens, and Public Health Implications

Accessible airline connections now permit infected individuals to travel anywhere in the world in less than 24 h, delivering human reservoirs of malaria, dengue fever, West Nile virus, and Chikungunya fever to new temperate areas for autochthonous or local transmission by new and adaptable mosquito vectors. A table is included comparing, by geographic distribution ranges and infectious disease transmission, the mosquito vectors of infectious diseases that may be imported by infected passengers. The following questions are addressed: Why is dengue fever a 21st century public health threat? Why could we not stop the spread of West Nile virus across the United States? Why are mosquitoes such competent transmission vectors of infectious diseases in an era of climatic change?

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• Authors:
  • Diaz, James H
• Conference:
  • Research on the Transmission of Disease in Airports and on Aircraft: A Synposium
  • Location: Washington D.C., United States
  • Date: 2009-9-17 to 2009-9-18
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 43-48
• Monograph Title: Research on the Transmission of Disease in Airports and on Aircraft: Summary of a Symposium
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Issue Number: 47
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air travel; Communicable diseases; Public health
• Uncontrolled Terms: Mosquito-borne diseases; Viruses; West Nile virus
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Policy; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01174177
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309142953
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 29 2010 8:09PM