Aircraft disinsection is the use of insecticide on international flights and in other closed spaces for insect and disease control.
[1] Insect vectors of disease, mostly mosquitoes, have been introduced into and become indigenous in geographic areas where they were not previously present.
[2] Dengue, chikungunya and Zika spread across the Pacific and into the Americas by means of the airline networks.
[6] The WHO recommends d-phenothrin (2%) for space spraying and permethrin (2%) for residual disinsection.
Disinsection is one of two applications of the IHR likely to be encountered by travelers; yellow fever vaccination is the other.