tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Travelers who are planning to pass through some of America?s biggest transportation hubs like John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York or LAX in Los Angeles now have another cause for concern beside long lines and terror threats: the heightened possibility of catching and spreading SARS or swine flu.
According to a new study published on Monday in the scientific journal PLoS One, a team of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering created a computer model that predicts how the 40 largest American airports may contribute to the spread of contagious disease within the first few days of a potential epidemic.
What is most surprising, however, is that smaller transportation hubs that handle far fewer passengers on a daily basis than the New York and Los Angeles behemoths can also play a crucial part in the diffusion of viruses.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...irulent-diseases-like-SARS.html#ixzz21busXfgU
According to a new study published on Monday in the scientific journal PLoS One, a team of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering created a computer model that predicts how the 40 largest American airports may contribute to the spread of contagious disease within the first few days of a potential epidemic.
What is most surprising, however, is that smaller transportation hubs that handle far fewer passengers on a daily basis than the New York and Los Angeles behemoths can also play a crucial part in the diffusion of viruses.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...irulent-diseases-like-SARS.html#ixzz21busXfgU