Airports, localities and disease: Representations of global travel during the H1N1 pandemic

An Uncertain Risk: The World Health Organization's Account of H1N1

“…The communication of pandemic risk to publics through the media (Fogarty et al, 2011;Tauscik et al, 2012;Warren et al, 2010;Nerlich and Koteyko, 2011) has been explicated as a key site in which the perception of threat is constructed. Likewise, lay and public health narratives of risk (Davies, 2011;Wagner-Egger et al 2011) help to produce the response to pandemic threats.…”

(Re)locating the border: Pre-entry tuberculosis (TB) screening of migrants to the UK

“…In addition, biosecurity enactments were present in states, and sites, not subjected to such intensive oversight by a global 'power', as contemporary disease preparedness created new geographies of containment and control within many countries. These measures often commenced before the passenger entered an airport and continued long after arrival at their final destination (Warren et al, 2010). During the SARS epidemic and the more recent H1N1 influenza pandemic, state interventions included: enforced home quarantine;…”

“…More recently, public anxiety, often stoked by national media reporting on infectious disease outbreaks (Bell et al, 2006;Warren et al, 2010), has depicted the need to guard against the threat from ''within' a state' (Budd et al, 2011: 276). It is in this context that the UK has, over the last decade, extended its surveillance of the disease beyond its borders through pre-entry screening of migrants.…”

Geography and global health

“…Other work has covered tobacco policy (Moon 2006), influenza (Craddock et al . 2010; Warren et al . 2010) and the more general linkage between rising levels of air travel and the global spread of disease (Budd et al .…”