Health officers will be able to monitor passengers' body temperatures on a computer next to the camera. Passengers who have temperatures above 38.5 degrees Celsius will be seen as red on the monitor and they will immediately be taken to the airport's health monitoring center. The chief physician at Istanbul Atatürk Airport's Health Monitoring Center, Aykut Cengiz Kavak, stated that there is one thermal camera at the airport for the time being, but that more can be installed if needed in the coming days. However, the swine flu is proving too clever for modern technology, reported Reuters. Experts say an infected person can easily pass through these heat sensors without detection as the incubation period for flu ranges anywhere between one and three days. "The scanners won't pick up everyone [with flu], especially if they are early on in the infection. ... People who have been infected very, very recently wouldn't show up on the scanner," Professor Mark von Itzstein, director of the Institute for Glycomics at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, told Reuters.
"You can imagine somebody who is just infected boards the plane in Singapore and heads towards Hong Kong. There would not be enough time for the apparatus to pick it up because he would not have developed significant fever." he said.
‘Unless prevented, nearly 400,000 people may die of swine flu’
Speaking to the Anatolia news agency, Professor Ata Nevzat Yalçın, from the department of infectious diseases at Akdeniz University's faculty of medicine, said unless the necessary precautions are taken, 7 to 8 million people may be affected by swine flu and 400,000 are likely to die of the virus.
Yalçın also linked the appearance of the disease in many countries in a very short period of time to the high number of travelers from Mexico, where the infection first broke out.
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