TY - JOUR
T1 - Vaccines and airline travel
T2 - A federal role to protect the public health
AU - Robertson, Christopher T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Author(s).
PY - 2016/5
Y1 - 2016/5
N2 - This Article explores two ways in which airline travel is an important vector for the spread of infectious disease, and argues that airlines have market-based and liability-based reasons to require that passengers be vaccinated. Going further, the Article explores whether the federal government has the legal and constitutional authority-especially under the Commerce Clause-to encourage or mandate that airlines implement such a vaccine screen. By disrupting the spread of disease at key network nodes where individuals interact and then connect with other geographic regions, and by creating another incentive for adult vaccination, an airline vaccine screen could be an effective and legally viable tool for the protection of public health.
AB - This Article explores two ways in which airline travel is an important vector for the spread of infectious disease, and argues that airlines have market-based and liability-based reasons to require that passengers be vaccinated. Going further, the Article explores whether the federal government has the legal and constitutional authority-especially under the Commerce Clause-to encourage or mandate that airlines implement such a vaccine screen. By disrupting the spread of disease at key network nodes where individuals interact and then connect with other geographic regions, and by creating another incentive for adult vaccination, an airline vaccine screen could be an effective and legally viable tool for the protection of public health.
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U2 - 10.1177/0098858816658279
DO - 10.1177/0098858816658279
M3 - Article
C2 - 29086635
AN - SCOPUS:84987933805
SN - 0098-8588
VL - 42
SP - 543
EP - 571
JO - American Journal of Law and Medicine
JF - American Journal of Law and Medicine
IS - 2-3
ER -