Air Travel Might Help Predict Pandemics
http://www.weather.com/article/airplane-travel-might-help-predict-pandemics-20131212
Now that flying internationally can be almost as easy as traveling domestically, diseases are easier to spread, researchers have found. But scientists now believe they have found a new way to use air transportation data to help predict the spread of ...
Flight attendants seek legal advice over Parkinson's disease fear
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/flight-attendants-seek-legal-advice-over-parkinsons-disease-fear-20131209-2z0wj.html
Flight attendants fear they could have been put at risk of long-term brain disorders including Parkinson's disease by regular exposure to insecticides sprayed on long-haul flights. Five flight attendants who have developed Parkinson's have contacted ...
How passengers with contagious diseases are kept off flights
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-travel-briefcase-20131209,0,7934502.story
Local health officials alert the CDC about people with highly contagious diseases, and the center notifies the Transportation Security Administration, which adds those names to a "do-not-board" list. It is similar to the "no-fly" list used to keep ...
Some plane truths on chest diseases
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/health/2013/December/health_December9.xml§ion=health
Any lung disease including COPD or emphysema, asthma, lung fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, pneumothorax, previous blood clots in the veins, lung cancer, co-existing heart and lung disease have to be checked before travelling.
How Viruses Take the Short Trip from London to NYC
http://www.livescience.com/41911-viruses-take-short-intercontinental-trip.html
Using measures of connectivity between airports, rather than actual distances, makes it possible to better predict where an emerging infectious disease will strike next, the researchers of a new study said. In the study, the researchers defined an ...
Nashville Clinic Provides Transparency in Pricing for Travel Medicine Services
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/12/prweb11401581.htm
The Centers for Disease Control and other experts recommend that international travelers visit a Travel Medicine Clinic to receive appropriate counseling on risk avoidance and to receive the proper vaccines and prescriptions for their specific travel ...
Libel action against Ford
http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-104736-4-.htm
The Canadian Red Cross says 270 passengers huddled together for warmth in freezing temperatures for about eight hours Friday after the train they were travelling on lost power in western Labrador. The Red Cross says the Tshiuetin Rail Transportation ...
The Medical Minute: Add immunizations to international travel plans
http://news.psu.edu/story/297071/2013/12/03/impact/medical-minute-add-immunizations-international-travel-plans
International travelers, however, have a longer pre-travel to-do list because they have to consider immunizations. The Penn State Hershey Travel Clinic, offered by Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center's Division of Infectious Diseases and ...
