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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. Re:simple, they were tracked down as sources by risinganger · · Score: 1, Troll

    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?