PRO/EDR> Tinea pedis, public health concern - USA

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Cheers
> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:55:26 -0500 (EST)
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> TINEA PEDIS, PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN - USA
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> Date: Sun 20 Mar 2005
> From: Cecil Fox <deltag () arkansas net>
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> Transmission of dermatophytes and tinea pedis in US airports
> -----------------------------------------------
> Having spent some time with mycotic infections, I am startled to see that
> the Transportation Security Administration, who supposedly monitors
> airports, "strongly" suggests that passengers remove their shoes while
> passing through the lines in American airports. The penalty for not doing
> so is an intimidating delay in which a total body scan for such contraband
> as glasses frames and wrist watches is conducted, whereupon you still are
> required to remove your shoes and to stand around on unkempt airport
> carpets while your shoes are X-rayed! If you do as "suggested," you must
> march 10 to 15 feet either barefoot or in stocking feet to a point where
> one's shoes may be reclaimed. This is evidently because a demented
> passenger attempted to ignite his shoes with either matches or a cigarette
> lighter, already prohibited.
>
> Unless I am terribly mistaken, one's flora are being mixed with that of
> several hundreds of thousand of passengers who have passed through the same
> lines. The floors are rarely cleaned (evidently) and never disinfected. Has
> simple hygiene been forfeited in the US in the name of "security?" When the
> TSA finally answered a query, they told me that OSHA had approved the cross
> contamination of hundreds of thousands of feet. The CDC, NIH, WHO, or state
> or local health departments were not consulted. National Security indeed.
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> [ProMED thanks Dr. Fox for alerting us to this previously unrecognized
> danger stemming from the common security practice in US airports. Though a
> disgusting and unaesthetic procedure, the people at highest risk must
> obviously be airport security staff. Studies documenting increased risk of
> dermatophytes and/or tinea pedis, and increased risk of respiratory tract
> symptoms like asthma or allergic alveolitis, is clearly highly needed. -
> Mod.EP]
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