Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2016
ISSN
2375-835X
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
This Article explores two ways in which airline travel is an important vector for the spread of infectious disease, and argues that airlines have market-based and liability-based reasons to require that passengers be vaccinated. Going further, the Article explores whether the federal government has the legal and constitutional authority — especially under the Commerce Clause — to encourage or mandate that airlines implement such a vaccine screen. By disrupting the spread of disease at key network nodes where individuals interact and then connect with other geographic regions, and by creating another incentive for adult vaccination, an airline vaccine screen could be an effective and legally viable tool for the protection of public health.
Recommended Citation
Christopher Robertson,
Vaccines and Airline Travel: A Federal Role to Protect the Public Health
,
in
42
American Journal of Law & Medicine
543
(2016).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/968
