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Saudi Government Says Its Health Ministry Is Stepping Up Swine Flu Screening
7 June 2009
JEDDAH: The Ministry of Health has stepped up swine flu screening at all of the Kingdom’s entry points following the discovery of the country’s first case of swine flu last week. Orderly checking was witnessed at the South Terminal of Jeddah’s King Abdulaziz International Airport yesterday. “Passengers from seven nations — the United States, Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany and Japan — that are on the watch list are the ones that we are looking carefully at,” said one Saudi health official. “Things are under control,” he added. Health Department personnel were seen screening passengers arriving on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight from Washington yesterday. One staff member manned the front desk at the arrivals gate checking for passengers with high temperatures through a laptop computer hooked to a thermal camera. “We look at all individuals coming in through the thermal screen. When the screen picks those who have a body temperature of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 F) or above an alarm goes off in the system and that person is stopped for further checkups at the airport’s health center,” the official said. “We take swab samples from the mouth and the nose of the individual, and check their temperatures again. Till now, no passenger has exhibited flu-like symptoms,” he added. “We are well equipped here at the airport to monitor incoming passengers from all the countries on the watch list,” said Yousef Abu Al-Faraj, supervisor of Jeddah’s South Terminal.
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