Originally Posted by
chollie
For those pax with normal immune systems, well....we've gone over a decade without an outbreak of something at the checkpoint, so clearly that proves that the risk is low to non-existent.
Not germs as such, but from March 2009:
TSOs at BOS have scabies
With people
from far-flung places passing through a checkpoint on their way
to far-flung places, it would have to be pretty dramatic to pin down a particular outbreak to a particular checkpoint. Imagine that 10% of the passengers through a given checkpoint at ORD over the course of 3 days came down with the same infection a few days later when they're at destinations around the world. How many would figure out that they picked it up at the checkpoint, and how would they contact others who'd been through the same checkpoint to find a correlation?