A substantial amount of resources were expended on border-screening measures in several countries, including Australia.
We discuss the border-screening experiences with SARS and influenza and propose an approach to decision-making for future pandemics.
Herein, we discuss the use of border-screening measures instituted during the 2003 SARS pandemic and the 2009 influenza pandemic.
To explore these questions, we examined border-screening experiences during the influenza A(H1N1 pdm09 virus pandemic and the SARS pandemic.
Making border health screenings even more problematic at the time of this exercise was the shortage of both federal and county personnel to carry them out.
This activity was led by the IRC Health Unit given their responsibility for providing health screenings at border points.
Malaysia said that it will deploy military medics at border crossings to bolster Sars screenings and will host a World Health Organisation Sars conference next month.
By Tuesday a centre for diagnostics and observation built by Unicef was in place at the hospital, and screenings at the border with Senegal will be reinforced over the next days.
Immigration officials will now reportedly reject people following their initial screenings at the border, which are known as "credible fear interviews".
