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Passengers Cheat Flu Scan With Fever Reducers

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-two-aspirin-and-infect-me-in-the-morning dept.

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. Fever doesn't spell influenza by oneirophrenos · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fever can be caused by lots of things. H1N1 isn't the only possible fever-inducing pathogen, and you can even have fever without having an infection. Preventing people with fever from travelling seems kind of an overkill.

  2. This was said before by Andr+T. · · Score: 3, Informative

    Australian scientists had already pointed that.

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