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Study Charts Swine Flu's Spread Through Air Travel
June 29, 2009
By Mike Stobbe
In a startling measure of just how widely a new disease can spread, researchers accurately plotted swine flu's course around the world by tracking air travel from Mexico.
The research was based on an analysis of flight data from March and April last year, which showed more than 2 million people flew from Mexico to more than 1,000 cities worldwide. Researchers said patterns of departures from Mexico in those months varies little from year to year; swine flu began its spread in March and April this year.
Passengers traveled to 164 countries, but four out of five of those went to the United States. That fits with the path of the epidemic a year later. The findings were reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.
© 2009 The Washington Post Company
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category: News from Other Sources : Outbreaks
contributed by Liza Nanni on 30 June 2009
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