Swine flu screening hits travelers

Get ready for the long, hot, swine flu summer:

Governments in Asia _ with potent memories of SARS and avian flu outbreaks _ heeded the warning amid global fears of a pandemic.

Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines dusted off thermal scanners used during the 2003 SARS crisis and were checking for signs of fever among passengers arriving from North America. South Korea and Indonesia introduced similar screening…

India will start screening people arriving from Mexico, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Spain, Britain and France for flu-like symptoms, said Vineet Chawdhry, a top Health Ministry official. It also will contact people who have arrived from Mexico and other affected countries in the past 10 days to check for the symptoms, he said. - Huffington Post

Update on April 29, 2009 by Frank@OBOW

“Heat scanners give cold comfort during flu outbreak”

Comments

[Flu Mask]

I wonder which nationalities had the most flu-like symptoms when being checked in India.