Can you catch Ebola on a plane? The deadly diseases that spread via air travel
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/can-you-catch-ebola-on-a-plane-the-deadly-diseases-that-spread-via-air-travel/story-fnizu4n5-1227010101626
According to the Oxford Journal of Infectious Diseases: ?International travel has made the spread of disease via aeroplanes almost routine. Outbreaks of measles, polio and cholera have been traced back to countries thousands of miles away. Even Ebola ...
Can The Ebola Epidemic Spread Beyond Africa Through International Air Travel?
http://www.ibtimes.com/can-ebola-epidemic-spread-beyond-africa-through-international-air-travel-1642538
The World Health Organization, however, has not yet imposed travel restrictions on the area while the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is simply urging travelers to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to take ?enhanced precautions? that ...
An Ebola patient is leaving Africa for treatment at an Atlanta hospital
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-crisis-prompts-cdc-to-warn-against-nonessential-travel-to-west-africa/2014/07/31/7f132634-18ce-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html
The World Health Organization is not recommending any travel restrictions or closure of borders at this time. The International Air Transport Association said it will follow WHO's lead on travel restrictions. ?What is key about this disease is that if ...
Nigeria Ebola Death Raises Fears Disease Can Spread by Air Travel
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/07/nigeria_ebola_death_raises_fears_disease_can_spread_by_air_travel.html
Concern about the spread of the disease via air travel was raised Tuesday after Patrick Sawyer, a consultant for the Liberian Ministry of Finance, was quarantined by health authorities in Nigeria, who suspected that he might be infected, AP writes ...
Age of travel brings unpredictability to canine disease
http://www.sciencewa.net.au/topics/social-science/item/2977-age-of-travel-brings-unpredictability-to-canine-disease/2977-age-of-travel-brings-unpredictability-to-canine-disease
A LOCAL researcher is calling for veterinarians to be aware and informed about an increase in canine vector-borne diseases (CVBD) as a result of global travel. Murdoch University Professor Peter Irwin has put forward six paradigms concerning CVBD ...
Ebola patients on way to Atlanta, Emory to treat at least 1
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/ebola-outbreak-worsens-cdc-issues-level-3-travel-w/ngrng/
The hospital has a special isolation unit set up in collaboration with the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to treat patients with serious infectious diseases. At least one of the two will be taken to a hospital at Emory ...
The Hot Zones: A Year in Review of Travel Illness
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dane-steele-green/the-hot-zones-a-year-in-r_b_5633831.html
It is a classic example of modern travel enabling diseases long restricted by geography to appear around the world in the span of hours; unknown in Europe, Italy experienced an outbreak in 2007. The CDC officially lists the virus as having reached an ...
How prepared is South Africa for an Ebola outbreak?
http://www.health24.com/Medical/infectious-diseases/Ebola/How-prepared-is-South-Africa-for-an-Ebola-outbreak-20140801
In the last three months, three people have been tested for Ebola in South Africa, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) told News24. All tests proved to be negative. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has alerted health officials ...
