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To be fair, it is unlikely that any bee would bring in this hazard with an individual on a plane . This is likely the result of a colony of bees in a ship or external cargo which is why it is first detected in sentinel hives around the port.
Where we all import more and more items from overseas and insist they arrive quickly and in greater numbers it becomes more and more difficult to keep out stowaway insects and water borne hazards.
The only real long term solution would be offshore container and cargo terminals with quarantine and irradiated tunnels to bring sealed containers ashore and to export materials to keep vessels offshore. That would just be impossibly expensive now.
The department of primary industries does a great job training us all in bee keeping and bio hazard security as does customs in keeping most things out.
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