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AVIONEWS' report on risks relating infections on board: asked Italian professor Walter Pasini

Rome, Italy - He is expert on international medicine and director of Rimini travel medicine WHO centre

The problem of the risk of infections on air becomes current again: diseases can be contracted in commercial aircraft by stale food, flu, Sars as well as bird flu. Recently new avian flu cases have been reported in Vietnam and Indonesia, so WHO (World Health Organization) called the alert for governments in order to lower both sanitary and economic impact of the disease. AVIONEWS asked professor Walter...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 117861
Rome, Italy, 04/05/2005 18:29
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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