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U.S. asked to screen outbound passengers

NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dinesh Trivedi has demanded that Washington provide some kind of screening for outbound passengers as most of the swine flu cases in India have come from the U.S..

“They include the Jalandhar-based students who have tested positive for the flu after returning from an educational trip to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),” the Minister said on Tuesday.

Mr. Trivedi said Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had already requested the External Affairs Ministry to prevail upon swine flu-affected countries to start screening passengers bound for India to cut down the spread of the deadly virus.

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