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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Perfectly normal

[aaandre]

The scanners were installed so that they can screen people who did not give consent for screening. It is only logical that people with cold symptoms who do not want their time wasted or worse, being prevented from entering the country, take measures to protect *their* investment in tickets, vacation time etc.

Re:simple, they were tracked down as sources

[risinganger]

You could stay home when other people are sick. Not sure where in the constitution it says healthy people have right to travel when sick people don't.

With rights or freedoms come responsibilities. Is it asking so much for somebody to not act like an asshole and potentially infect an entire plane full of people if they have any level of suspicion that they're ill with something infectious?

Re:Fever doesn't spell influenza

[Brandybuck]

Door locks are ineffective. The average wooden door to a house can be opened with a swift kick. Even the better doors can be opened with a sledgehammer. This makes door locks completely worhtless. The goal of door locks must be to program people to get used to ridiculous measures for their "security".