JFK Airport top germ spreader

New York's John F Kennedy Airport is a teeming hub for international flight -- and globe-trotting germs, a new study says.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology paper published this week named JFK as the top of a list of "super-spreaders" in contagious diseases.
Next in the list came Los Angeles International, Honolulu, San Francisco, Newark Liberty, Chicago O'Hare and Washington Dulles, MIT said.
Top germ hub status doesn't actually mean the airports are disease-ridden themselves.
The study instead measured a wide variety of factors contributing to the airports' role in the spread of infectious disease. These include travel patterns, geographic location and waiting times.
The idea was to help understand and predict how viruses like SARS and bird flu get around and prompt epidemics in an ever-more connected world.