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Tangurena2today at 6:46 PM1 replyview on HN

If the airport workers had travelled to another country, their doctors would have looked for tropical/travel diseases.

Usually, it is through shipping containers where unwanted insects cross borders. That's how murder hornets and flying cockroaches got into the US.


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bauruinetoday at 7:20 PM

I'm asking about the Dutchman story the parent wrote. I can hardly believe it tbh. Even if the Netherlands don't have specialized personel, Hamburg is just a 5 hour drive away and Antwerp even closer.