Airport Screening Misses More Than Half of Infected Travelers
Airport screening procedures to stop the spread of infectious diseases miss half to three-quarters of infected travelers who make it to their destinations, according to a new university study.
The study, authored by UCLA researchers and published last month in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Elife, comes shortly after a measles outbreak and an Ebola scare put more Americans on high alert about the spread of infectious diseases. The study analyzed airport screenings for six viruses including SARS, Ebola and H1N1, the so-called swine flu virus.