The new health threats of exotic and global travel.
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INTRODUCTION We live in a globalised world with travel, population movements, and migration impacting virtually all countries. As a result, global infectious disease epidemiology is changing. Greater global mobility leads to the potential of importing, exporting, or spreading communicable diseases across regions, borders, and continents, potentially posing a health threat to the UK. The movement of animals, plants, and other goods across the globe, through international trade, also creates new public health challenges. London is a key transit hub for global air networks, and the number of passengers continues to grow. Heathrow is the world's busiest airport in terms of international passenger traffic. With the open borders in the European Union, there is greater trans-border mobility in this region.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
دوره 62 603 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012