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‘H1N1 screening at Delhi’s IGI airport not exhaustive’

Chandigarh: Just as the panic-stricken foreign returned Indians are making a beeline to get themselves admitted in the isolation wards of city hospitals to rule out the possibility of an H1N1 infection, it is the screening system, or the lack of it, at international airports in the country that have come u  ....Read more

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You cannot stop a pandemic.By: FactChecker2 | Tuesday , 30 Jun '09 7:48:04 AM Reply | Forward Thermal scanning cannot pick up pre-symptomatic infected people.The pandemic will spread everywhere. One third to one half of the world's population will be infected over the next year or so.Save your money and resources for managing people with the disease, or for individual or community precautions -- masks, stockpiling food in order to avoid crowded places during the worst outbreaks, care for the poorest of the poor in slums. Screening travelers is a waste of money, given the inevitable spread of the pandemic and the lack of any vaccine for months to come (and then only a small amount, relative to the population's size).Read WHO website and other authoritative sources for history of pandemics. WHO Director General said on June 11 that it is "unstoppable." Why are our officials pretending we can stop it? What a waste. There is far more important planning to do.
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