individuals who acquired an *airport vector-borne disease* after a stint in an endemic area. Naturally, the latter term follows the definition of *Airport malaria*.\
Moreover, the existence of vector populations that are capable of transmitting several arboviruses in the US and western Europe has been widely documented. For instance, the vector *Aedes albopictus* also known as the Asian tiger mosquito, a vector competent of transmitting many arbovirus including Japanese encephalitis, West Nile, and yellow fever, Dengue, etc., to humans [@mitchell1995geographic; @shroyer1986aedes], is well established in North America [@benedict2007spread; @mitchell1995geographic; @shroyer1986aedes] and Europe [@mitchell1995geographic].\
Together, the increasing interconnectedness of the world brings an influx of viremic (latent or infectious) individuals and their epidemiological life-history into naive geographic areas or populations, and thereby infecting local competent vector populations. This could potentially create a chain reaction that could lead to an autochthonous transmission cycle of arboviruses and sporadic outbreaks of vector-borne diseases in these otherwise naive host populations. For instance, the presumed index case of Italy’s 2007 Chikungunya outbreak was a man from India who developed symptoms while visiting relatives in one of the villages where the outbreak started [@rezza2007infection]. Similarly, an estimated 475 cases of imported chikungunya are reported in mainland France 