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Tracking Travelers: Airlines Balk at Epidemic Safeguards

An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

Concerned about bird flu, federal health officials want airlines to collect personal information about domestic and international passengers to help track a potential epidemic.

Financially strapped airlines say creating such a database would impose staggering new costs.

"What we're asking for is the authority to collect the information in the context of modern travel on airlines," Dr. Marty Cetron, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's director of global migration and quarantine, said Tuesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

posted by Fergie @ 4/25/2006 07:08:00 PM