Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Ebola: are thermal scanners effective prevention tools or just a placebo? | World news | theguardian.com

Ebola: are thermal scanners effective prevention tools or just a placebo? | World news | theguardian.com: How does a financial services conference expecting thousands of attendees coming into the US from more than 130 countries try to keep participants safe from Ebola? It takes their temperature.

Sibos, a gathering of financial experts being held in Boston this week, emailed attendees on Monday, before the disclosure of the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the US, to inform them that it would, in addition to its typical metal detectors, be employing “thermal scanners” at each entrance to the conference “to detect elevated body temperatures and possible infectious diseases”.

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