Taiwan tackles virus with temperature checks

MELODY LEE carries a digital thermometer and two spare face masks in her Gucci bag as she goes about her business in Taiwan.

The 35-year-old secretary at a local trading company is not sick, nor does she have any known contact with SARS patients, but Lee has to have her temperature measured virtually everywhere she goes in Taipei.

"I had my temperature taken when I took my daughter to school this morning, and again when I went to the office," Lee said.