ALARM!! -- checking body temperatures of arriving passengers in Japan

[underpants]

A quarantine official is reflected on a monitor as he checks the temperatures of arriving passengers on a thermographic imaging device placed at Narita international airport, east of Tokyo, April 27, 2009.
REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

[Trajan]

1. Whew !

I was thinking some other method was being used ....

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I WISH we had those to be honest

[Demeter]

3. Makes More Sense than Confiscating Toiletries

[underpants]

5. MALLINTENT-they are working on it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MALINTENT

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426485,00.html

[Fleshdancer]

4. I had no idea Narita had this

I wonder what your body temp has to be for it to set off the alarm.

[hedgehog]

6. How do you say "Hot flash, not fever" in Japanese?

[underpants]

7. Not sure of the translation

but it starts with

"We are going to need you to step over here for a few moments...."

[carlyhippy]

8. LOL what if some poor older woman going thru menopause had a hot flash?!

that reminds me of the walmart exit door, you know you paid for all your items, but still sometimes that stupid alarm goes off anyway.....can instill paranoia.....

[kestrel91316]

10. All they have to do is take their temp the conventional way if they

set off the alarm. I'm pretty sure hot flashes don't affect core body temp.

[SheilaT]

11. That's correct.

When I was in the throes of hot flashes, I asked a physician friend of mine, and she said that hot flashes don't affect core body temp.

[babylonsister]

9. Japan always reacts to any threat or potential health threat.

I don't blame them. Lots and lots of people in a relatively small area, at least in the cities.

I remember they did tests at the airport after the bird flu was discovered.