No A/H1N1 case among passengers transiting Moroccan airports, ONDA

   The thirty thermal scanners installed in the country's main airports spotted 244 passengers with high body temperature due to ordinary diseases unrelated to the swine flu virus, Abdelhanine Benallou said Thursday at a  press briefing.

   The thermal scanners purchased by ONDA belong to the latest generation and each is provided with six thermal cameras to monitor the body heat of passengers arriving from abroad, and prevent the infiltration of the virus, Benallou said.

   Morocco was among the first countries to obtain this kind of sophisticated and certified scanners, he added.
 
  Mohammed Moussif, physician at the Mohammed V International Airport health service, said passengers from Mexico benefit from a medical follow-up wherever they go in Morocco.

   Information sheets are handed out to the passengers in the airplane before they are scanned for the flu, he said, adding that the medical unit is equipped with all necessary means of intervention.

   The main Moroccan airports are provided with 3,000 Tamiflu packs, 1,000 of which are destined for the Mohammed V Airport.

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