

Having disease control personnel at the gates will probably not help too much, as the incubation time is several days. So a passenger can arrive perfectly healthy at the gate, but already be infected, and have infected many more.
SARS is spread via drops as found in caughing, or in aircraft air-con systems. Therefore infection is likely, but no one finds out until you get the first symptoms.
The tricky thing is that the first symptons are quite similiar to a normal influenza, and only if you are going to see a doctor at the very beginning, you can get some relief. However, since it is as of now unknow whether SARS is a virus or is bacterial, anti-biotics may not help. So doctors can only give medicine for relief of the symptoms.
So what everybody should do is see a doctor immediately if he/she gets:
- heavy caugh
- high fever
- or other heavy symptoms of influenza
On the other hand side it is not yet epidemic, there's only a very small number of persons infected, so it may spread but is not considered to be an immediate danger.
Regards,
Peter
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