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Does screening travelers for disease and infection really work?

  • Written by Tom Duszynski, Director Epidemiology Education, IUPUI
Body temperature scans are one tool to interrupt the spread of disease by travelers.Tatan Syuflana/APImages.com

Following the emergence of a new coronavirus late last year, China closed its borders to prevent the disease from traveling. Yet many people had already left Wuhan, which allowed the virus to move with people as they traveled around the...

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