Entry and exit screening of airline travellers during the A(H1N1) 2009 pandemic: a retrospective evaluation

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the screening measures that would have been required to assess all travellers at risk of transporting A(H1N1)pdm09 out of Mexico by air at the start of the 2009 pandemic. METHODS: Data from flight itineraries for travellers who flew from Mexico were used to estimate the number...

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Main Authors: Kamran Khan, Rose Eckhardt, John S Brownstein, Raza Naqvi, Wei Hu, David Kossowsky, David Scales, Julien Arino, Michael MacDonald, Jun Wang, Jennifer Sears, Martin S Cetron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2013-05-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862013000500012&lng=en&tlng=en