In "Goodbye to all that" by Clive Anderson
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Prospect, August 2014, pp.58-61.

p.60: [NP] It is not obvious why so many new diseases should be manifesting
themselves as such a rate, but the expansion in air travel and the
globalisation of trade and industry must have something todo with it.
No man is an island, and nowadays no island is either. Insects, bacteria
and fungi hitch a ride from country to country with travellers and
cargoes.