USA (Opinion) — Yesterday came the report that India will join a growing number of countries installing IR Thermal Cameras at airports to screen for possible flu carriers.

We reported earlier about Thermal Camera installations in Australia, Bulgaria, Korea, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

(You can bet your bippie that the ones in China, Japan, Singapore and others have been trotted out, dusted off and placed back in service, if they were ever out-of-service)

Why doesn’t the USA have a similar policy? Is anything being done about it except diverting a few aircraft for one or two ill passengers? We haven’t heard or seen any reports and there’s precious little about efforts to thwart flu spreading from passengers arriving from Mexico

Yet while US authorities were apparently ignoring the airport screening issue, the big news yesterday was school children need no longer stay home for fear of H1N1 flu.
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