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Creating a better way to diagnose swine flu and other ailments.

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on Wednesday, 7 October 2009
(on October 7, 2009)

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Crude methods of detecting swine flu have so far provoked hand-wringing and no small amount of ridicule.
Planeloads of travelers to China have had laser beams aimed at their foreheads, landing some under quarantine (and spurring a YouTube minifest of airport videos).
This summer, Slate reported on a camp that tried to prescreen kids for flu by checking campers for fevers—and failed to detect a sick child whose physician parent brought his temperature down with Tylenol, fueling an outbreak.
Meanwhile, people infected with the virus can pass it on before they develop symptoms; others never develop fever at all.[more ...]

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