Following reports of the alleged Black Death incident in China swirling on social media, Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) General Manager Ed Monreal appealed to all arriving passengers to follow the quarantine process at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
In a statement, Monreal said that the NAIA is already on heightened alert to prevent passengers carrying the Black Death Plague or Rat Flea Virus coming from China in entering the country.
According to Dr. Noel Ramirez — Human Quarantine Doctor on-duty from the Bureau of Quarantine (BoQ) — they are already strictly monitoring all arriving passengers through their thermal scanners and passengers who have fever will be invited to the office for physical examination and get vital information on the passenger’s travel history.
He added that the BoQ is also monitoring cargo planes and vessels that passed through China as it issued a memorandum order addressed to all officials and personnel at the airports and seaports dated 19 November 2019.
Chinese authorities, on the other hand, assured their citizens that there was no cause for alarm or panic and they monitoring all the affected areas and patients showing symptoms of the disease.
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The ‘plague’ is primarily a disease of rodents and their fleas, which can infect humans and it is transmitted between rodents by rodent fleas and can be transmitted to people when infected rodent fleas bite them.
In line with reported cases of plague in China in the past few weeks, the BoQ is implementing the following quarantine procedures — heightened surveillance on rat borne diseases in all conveyances coming from affected countries in particular plague from China including thorough review of the submitted maritime declaration of health and health part of Aircraft General Declaration; plaque surveillance at ports; provisions for control measures for rodents; continuous passive screening of incoming and outgoing travelers; information dissemination among travelers regarding plaque and coordinate with port and airport authorities and partners on identifying areas for display of information, education and communication materials.
