ReviewTrends in parasitology2018
Human Mobility and the Global Spread of Infectious Diseases: A Focus on Air Travel.
Review in Trends in parasitology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 130 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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130 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A Systematic Review of New, Enhanced Surveillance Systems and Methodologies for Zoonotic Influenza Viruses in Animals and Human-Animal Interface.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2025Pooled it
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- Mobility data resolution needed to inform predictive models of spatial epidemic spread from mobile phone data.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
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- Influence of Both La Nina and Island Isolation During COVID-19 on the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in New Caledonia.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Household and community-based approaches to malaria and cholera prevention: A narrative review with case studies from Uganda and Mozambique.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Review
- Comparative Analysis of Flight Volume Effects on COVID-19 and Influenza Transmission Across Variable Control Intensities, 2019-2024.The Journal of infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Travel microbiota: a novel frontier in travel medicine exploring microbial shifts across transportation modes.Tropical diseases, travel medicine and vaccines · 2026Review
- Prevention as a Pillar of Communicable Disease Control: Strategies for Equity, Surveillance, and One Health Integration.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A semi-mechanistic modeling strategy for infectious diseases forecasting: Error correction and probabilistic prediction.Biosafety and health · 2026Article
- Risk factors associated with acquiring gastrointestinal infections in UK international travellers: a case-control study.Epidemiology and infection · 2026Article
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Abstract
Greater human mobility, largely driven by air travel, is leading to an increase in the frequency and reach of infectious disease epidemics. Air travel can rapidly connect any two points on the planet, and this has the potential to cause swift and broad dissemination of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases that may pose a threat to global health security. Investments to strengthen surveillance, build robust early-warning systems, improve predictive models, and coordinate public health responses may help to prevent, detect, and respond to new infectious disease epidemics.
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