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We overview the threat that shipping poses for the invasive spread of non-indigenous species and spread of infectious disease, focusing in particular on invasions of the aedes aegypti and aedes albopictus mosquitos and their role in the spread of infectious disease. We conclude with a brief discussion of the computational prediction of these processes.
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. - Joseph Conrad
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Fitzgibbon, W., Morgan, J., Webb, G., Wu, Y. (2020). Maritime Transport and the Threat of Bio Invasion and the Spread of Infectious Disease. In: Diez, P., Neittaanmäki, P., Periaux, J., Tuovinen, T., Pons-Prats, J. (eds) Computation and Big Data for Transport. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 54. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37752-6_5
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