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| Shanghai to screen International passengers for bird flu |
| 2005-11-28 |
| Beginning from today, Shanghai will screen international passengers for bird flu prevention. All passengers leaving or entering China will be asked to fill in a health declaration form, specifying whether they have had "close contact with birds, poultry, bird flu patients over the past week" and whether they have "such symptoms as fever, coughing and being short of breath." Gosh, you think that you could escape such monitoring by just lying on your declaration form. And it's a good thing that they decline to monitor domestic flights...it's only those filthy foreigners who spread disease into China from outside. A passenger who has a temperature of over 38 degrees Celsius will be further examined. If someone has been to a bird flu-hit area or had contact with birds or poultry, then a treatment at a designated hospital is required. The health declaration and temperature monitoring measures were initiated in 2003 when the SARS epidemic hit China. Yeah, and that was really effective. Volunteer to miss your flight and be taken to a "hospital". They kept the SARS declaration forms around for much, much longer than the disease itself was around. |
| Posted by:gromky |