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Passengers Cheat Flu Scan With Fever Reducers

Nguyen Van Chau, head of Ho Chi Minh City's Health Department, has revealed that many sick passengers who flew to Ho Chi Minh City used fever reducers to fool temperature scanners at the airport. The government has confirmed 26 people infected with H1N1 flu, 23 of whom came by air after traveling in the United States or Australia. State media reports that the discovery of these scanner cheaters led to the detection of several infected cases later.

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  1. Typical. by Aphoxema · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those bastards, trying to keep their proteins from denaturing! Hang them, hang them high!

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  2. In other news... by Starteck81 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news it was discovered that vampires are able to raise their body temperature high enough to fool heat cameras meant to detect the undead by drinking a gallon of hot coffee right before they pass the cameras.

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  3. Re:And now... by oneirophrenos · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...can someone lend me that cool (but useless) thermal scanner so I can watch that hot girl that lives next door? That would be definitely useful.

    Why? So you can look at her delicious kind-of-reddish-coloured breast outlines and those sexy blueish-green thighs?

  4. Re:And now... by Flea+of+Pain · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why? So you can look at her delicious kind-of-reddish-coloured breast outlines and those sexy blueish-green thighs?

    Hey, Kirk seemed to like the green color in Star Trek...

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  5. Re:So doing something to my own body is CHEATING? by Andr+T. · · Score: 3, Funny

    So doing something to my own body is CHEATING?

    That's what I told her :-(

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  6. Re:Pointless by PrescriptionWarning · · Score: 5, Funny

    its second purpose is to discover when lizard people have infiltrated our society

  7. Re:simple, they were tracked down as sources by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me put it this way: if people had laptops that were infected, were booted off the network because of security software, and then defeated that security software to get online (and infected machines around them, destroying some of them)...what would you say then?

    Nothing. That's what LARTs are for.

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  8. Re:So doing something to my own body is CHEATING? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You sure her being mad didn't have something to do with you looking at the girl next door with a temperature scanner?

  9. Re:Wait... by Critical+Facilities · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also, are passengers on stimulants causing false positives?

    Absolutely! Though I myself must admit some guilt:

    1. I cheated my allergies by taking Allegra
      I cheated by asthma by taking Singulaire
      I cheated fatigue by visiting Starbucks
      I cheated hunger by grabbing a Cinnabon

    And I selfishly did all this just before boarding a plane!! Nothing can stop me! Mwah ha ha haaa!

  10. Re:Fever doesn't spell influenza by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sounds like he'd just be in for an evening.

  11. Re:Wait... by Xtravar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't forget, you cheated your depression by taking wellbutrin. And you cheated the calories from the Cinnabon by taking 'themogenic fat burners'.

    And then you had a seizure on the plane. :)

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  12. I Wish to Purchase One of These Fine Straw Men! by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wish to purchase one of these fine straw men,
    for placement in my cornfield.

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  13. Re:Wait... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...And I'm willing to bet that the amount of work I have to sholder to cover you being out sick would be far less then the amount of work I'd have to sholder to clean up your mess when half assed isn't enough to make it work. Especially since if you are coming in to work sick, you'll probablly be sick longer than if you just took a day off and got over it...

    Comments:

    1. Let's hope some of the "half-assed" work you're called upon to correct doesn't include spelling/grammar.
    2. Ummm, are you feeling well?
  14. Re:Wait... by PachmanP · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh hell! Just quarantine everybody...just to be safe.

    Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

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  15. Re:Hmm, WHO versus Slashdot retard... by dissy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Keiji Fukuda, head of flu at the WHO

    Now THAT is one awesome job title!

    Imagine the conversation between this guy and the person sitting next to him on the plane who didn't know any better...

    (Seat 13-A) So, what do you do for a living?
    (Keiji) I am the head of flu!
    (Seat 13-A) Uhh wait, what? Who do you work for again?
    (Keiji) Yes, WHO.
    (Seat 13-A) ...
    * Seat 13-A is now known as Seat 27-F

  16. Re:Wait... by dotgain · · Score: 3, Funny

    How dare you distract everyone with your logic and reasoning while we're trying to handing a fucking pandemic here!?! huh!?