This Discover magazine article identifies that a pandemic could spread very easily through airports. They used computer modeling of millions of flight itineraries and crunched the numbers. The listed the top/worst 10 airports. Most of the worst carried a large number of international passengers, since that would spread disease most easily.
The 1918 flu pandemic was also spread by mass transit, although it was certainly a slower version. There were more cases of the flu also rail lines at that time.
If an infectious disease were to suddenly break out, what could be done to stop or slow it using this information?
doctors came out with shots for people to take, or if you had flu-like symptoms then you were ordered to stay at home with no visitors
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