Airport SARS screening ‘pointless’

SCREENING passengers for SARS at airports is pointless because of the incubation period for the disease, Aer Rianta has warned.

Spokesman Vincent Wall said airports around the world had resisted a screening policy because it could take up to 10 days for symptoms of the disease to surface.

The warning came as a woman, who was at the centre of a SARS scare in Waterford City, was last night discharged from Waterford Regional Hospital after all tests carried out on her had returned negative.