By Murray Williams, Bronwynne Jooste, and Sapa
All local airline staff could soon be wearing safety masks to guard against the threat of swine flu sweeping the world, and an order has gone out for aircraft crews to monitor passengers closely.
Airport health officers have been assessing passengers and crew on aircraft since the beginning of the week, according to the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa).
In addition, South African airports could soon be equipped with hi-tech thermal scanners to monitor air passengers’ body tem-peratures, so identifying possible cases of the flu that has already taken the lives of about 170 people in [...]
