The "security" infection is spreading. More so than hysteria about bird flu. Perhaps a story about how airport security could spread disease -- a possibility most certainly -- is overdue?

People get their laptops handled in bins or swabbed; people eat sandwhich while working on same laptop. Disease spreads. A couple thousand die. After all, more routine communicable diseases, including flu, kills many more than that worldwide each year. Some part of that being airport-related?