This weekend the local health office will install temperature detectors at Mazatlán’s international airport and boat docks to detect persons with symptoms of the ebola virus entering the country, said health department manager Aarón Montoya Serrano.
At the moment, the department has posted ebola information signs in four languages (Spanish, English, French and Portuguese) at the airport to inform arrivals of the dangerous virus, said Montoya Serrano. The screening coincides with the beginning of the winter tourist season in Mazatlán.
The electronic temperature detectors are small thermometers which, in two seconds, read the body temperature, the first symptom of ebola. Montoya Serrano said they plan to test everyone entering the port and if a person has a fever, he or she will not be admitted until a doctor has authorized it.
(from Noroeste)
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