We started hearing about the swine flu in our last week in Taiwan, but it didn't hit home until we arrived at the Taipei airport and saw more people in face masks than usual. They passed out forms on the flight into Tokyo asking if passengers had been in Mexico, Canada or the USA in the last 10 days. Since we'd been in Taiwan for the last month, we were OK.
Once in Tokyo, we saw medical teams passing through the airport. Later we learned that these medical teams were boarding planes coming in from Mexico, Canada and the USA and were screening passengers for high temperatures and other indicators of swine flu before allowing the passengers to disembark.
The funny flight attendants on our flight from Tokyo to Minneapolis said they made up a new name for the swine flu since H1N1 sounded too uptight - they are calling it R2D2!
We started hearing about the swine flu in our last week in Taiwan, but it didn't hit home until we arrived at the Taipei airport and saw more people in face masks than usual. They passed out forms on the flight into Tokyo asking if passengers had been in Mexico, Canada or the USA in the last 10 days. Since we'd been in Taiwan for the last month, we were OK.
Once in Tokyo, we saw medical teams passing through the airport. Later we learned that these medical teams were boarding planes coming in from Mexico, Canada and the USA and were screening passengers for high temperatures and other indicators of swine flu before allowing the passengers to disembark.
The funny flight attendants on our flight from Tokyo to Minneapolis said they made up a new name for the swine flu since H1N1 sounded too uptight - they are calling it R2D2!
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