Transcript: PREVENTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE OUTBREAKS & BIOTERRORISM IN AIR TRAVEL TO BE FOCUS OF CONGRESSIONAL HEARING

Article: Canadian researchers use air traffic patterns to predict global ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 29, 2009 ;     639 words ... ... to predict global infectious disease spread OTTAWA ... designed a system using air travel patterns to predict ... system, developed by infectious disease physician Dr. Kamran ... transmission of infectious disease after the 2003 SARS ...

Transcript: BLOCKING GLOBAL SPREAD OF DISEASE FACILITATED BY AIR ...
Congressional Testimony;  April 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... related to commercial air travel. Recently, a colleague ... knowledge and status of Infectious Disease Transmission during Commercial Air Travel. This publication represented ... literature concerning infectious disease spread aboard aircraft ...

Article: Health officials, Airlines work to stop spread of ...
Legislative Network for Nurses;  April 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... stopping the spread of infectious disease through airline ... of the variety of infectious disease threats that exist ... the threat of infectious disease introduction and ... We recognize that air travel makes it possible ...

Article: FED: Expert warns of increase in infectious disease
AAP General News (Australia);  April 2, 2003 ;     502 words ... ... Expert warns of increase in infectious disease By Judy Skatssoon, National ... see a substantial increase in infectious disease, Prof Curson said. I'm ... quarantine requirements. But air travel and an appetite to travel to ...

Article: Fed: Infectious disease eradications may no longer ...
AAP General News (Australia);  August 1, 2006 ;     584 words ... ... Australia) 08-01-2006 Fed: Infectious disease eradications may no longer be possible ... much more difficult. "There was no air travel to speak of, or not much, in the ... per cent mortality, and there was no air travel. "If it got into Africa, there is ...

Article: Immediate and Sustained Psychological Impact of an Emerging ...
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... preparedness planning for future infectious disease outbreaks. Limitations * Data ... deviation Effective containment of infectious disease outbreaks has become a global ... combination with contemporary air travel, mean that the threat of another ...

Article: Infectious disease problem likely to worsen
The Hindustan Times;  November 25, 2005 ;     508 words ... ... globalisation of people and products is difficult to control and is largely related to increasing air transportation. With world air travel expected to grow at about 5 percent a year for at least the next 20 years, the problem of emerging infectious diseases will ...