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JFK, Newark: Airports you can catch disease before your flight

Thursday, 26 July 2012 18:30
BY FRANCESCA BARATTA
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Now travelers have another reason to dislike Newark Airport besides the security lines and the flight delays. Newark Liberty International Airport has been named one of the top 10 airports most likely to spread disease.

According to ABC News, a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering researched the influence of airports in the spread of diseases in light of the H1N1, SARS, and avian flu outbreaks. The researchers studied factors including the airports' locations, the amount of interaction between airports, and the passengers’ wait time and travel patterns, reports CNN.

Newark Airport landed fifth on the list. John F. Kennedy was first followed by Los Angeles International, Honolulu International Airport, and San Francisco International Airport. After Newark comes O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Miami International Airport and Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

In 2011 alone, Newark Airport hosted 33,711,372 passengers and 410,013 plane movements, according to Port Authority of NY and NJ. The airport also employs 24,000 people. The amount of people going through the airport is one of the reasons why an outbreak in Newark could be devastating.

However, the study will strengthen national security in the face of pandemic diseases. “The findings could form the basis for an initial evaluation of vaccine allocation strategies in the event of an outbreak, and could inform national security agencies of the most vulnerable pathways for biological attacks in a densely connected world,” Ruben Juanes, the ARCO Associate Professor in Energy Studies in CEE, said to ABC News.

So passengers can go back to only worrying about how they can get from Terminal A to Terminal C in under 10 minutes.

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