Airport screening fails to detect any Nipah infectionsListen to this articleSuvarnabhumi airport has set up screening points for passengers arriving from India to monitor the situation and prevent the possibility of an outbreak of the Nipah virus. Department of Disease ControlHealth officials at Suvarnabhumi Airport have not found any passengers exhibiting symptoms of Nipah virus infection following enhanced screening of travellers arriving from India, amid heightened regional surveillance following cases reported in West Bengal. Airports of Thailand Plc, in coordination with the Division of International Communicable Disease Control and Quarantine, began screening incoming passengers from India at 4am on Sunday as a preventive public health measure. Suvarnabhumi Airport director Kittipong Kittikajorn said the measures comply with international standards and are designed to support health officials in early detection while minimising disruption to passengers. Separately, Dr Yong Poovorawan, head of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University, said the Nipah virus is not new and is unlikely to spread in the same way as influenza or Covid-19.
