Abstract:
Increase in global travel is occurring simultaneously with many other processes that favour the emergence of diseases. As the world becomes a global village where everyone can be anywhere on the surface of the earth within a short period of time, this has contributed to the global exchange of regional diseases at a faster rate. The aim of the study was to assess air transport as medium for transmission of Ebola and Influenza diseases, by determining periods when the global spread of Ebola and Influenza diseases occurred, from where to where and assessing the measures that have been put in place by the global aviation industry to prevent the future occurrence of the outbreak of infectious diseases.
The correlation states a positive relationship, meaning that the two variables correlated moves in the same direction i.e. when the passenger movement increases, the transmission of infectious diseases from infected victim to new people in the new territories (destination of the inbound aircraft from the infected countries of the world) increases by 0.854. that is, the increase in the number of passenger movement to a new territory will bring about 0.854 increase in the number of people at risk of being infected in that new territory. We then reject the null hypothesis which says that there is no significant relationship between passengers’ movements and infected persons at the destination where Influenza and Ebola are transported to and accept the alternate hypothesis which states that there is significant relationship between passengers’ movements and infected persons at the destination where Influenza and Ebola are transported to.
