Travel Vaccine News

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently announced an expected strengthening of the airline industry in its outlook for 2023.
Published on June 5, 2023, these highlights include but are not limited to, some 4.35 billion people are expected to travel in 2023.
And total revenues are expected to grow 9.7% year over year to $803 billion, the highest amount since 2019 ($838 billion).

The United Republic of Tanzania today declared the end of the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak after two months. This was the country’s first MVD outbreak of the disease.
As of June 2, 2023, nine cases and six related fatalities were recorded in the outbreak declared on March 21, 2023.
The last confirmed case tested negative for the second test of MVD was on April 19, 2023, setting off the 42-day mandatory countdown to declare the end of the outbreak.

International tourism is well on its way to returning to pre-pandemic levels, with twice as many people traveling during the first quarter of 2023 than in the same period of 2022, reported the U.N. World Tourism Organization.
The second UNWTO World Tourism Barometer published on May 9, 2023, shows that the international travel sector's recovery has continued into 2023. It shows that:

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced that in mid-May 2023, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland reported the detection of avian influenza A(H5) virus in a poultry worker at a farm in England where poultry was infected with high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) viruses.
Another detection was reported in a second individual performing culling operations on the farm.

The Times of India (TOI) recently reported fake yellow fever vaccination certificates may have been issued to travelers visiting forty-two countries.
On May 29, 2023, the TOI confirmed the Indian government had issued directions to check which centers are issuing falsified yellow fever vaccination certificates.

Global leaders and stakeholders recently gathered at the World Health Assembly, where Ministers of Health evaluated the unique opportunity to eradicate the remaining chains of endemic wild poliovirus.
As of May 26, 2023, a handful of districts of just two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, continue reporting polio outbreaks.
For example, there have been three confirmed polio cases in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province in 2023.

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently confirmed it is prepared for the holiday weekend, expecting to surpass the activity last seen at airports in 2019.
The agency forecasts May 26, 2023, to be the busiest day of the long weekend, projecting to screen approximately 2.6 million passengers.
And for PreCheck® Members, several options exist to expedite the screening process in 2023.

According to VOA News, Brazil recently declared a state of animal health emergency for 180 days in response to the country's first detection of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HAPI) in wild birds.
Brazil's agriculture ministry said on May 22, 2023, it has created an emergency operations center to coordinate, plan and evaluate "national actions related to avian influenza."
Avian influenza A (H5N1) was first detected in the Americas in December 2014, and since January 2022, over 58 million birds in 47 states have been culled following HAPI detections in the U.S.

According to VOA News, Brazil recently declared a state of animal health emergency for the next 180 days in response to the country's first detection of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HAPI) in wild birds.
Brazil's agriculture ministry said on May 22, 2023, it has created an emergency operations center to coordinate, plan and evaluate "national actions related to avian influenza."

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced the deployment of a new technology that enables airline passengers to use their Georgia-issued mobile driver’s license or ID card in Apple Wallet to verify their identity for airport security screening purposes at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL).