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With the increase in world travel and access to varied populations and geographic areas, we continue to see more “tropical” diseases and infections outside areas of endemicity due to the rapidity with which people and organisms can be transmitted from one place to another. Travel has also become accessible and more affordable for many people throughout the world, including those whose overall health status is in some way compromised. The increased transportation of infectious agents and potential human carriers, particularly via air travel, has been clearly demonstrated during the last few years. It has also been well documented that vectors carrying parasitic organisms can be transported via air travel in baggage and in the unpressurized parts of the plane itself; once released, these infected vectors can then transmit these parasites to humans, even in areas where the infections are not endemic.