In Hong Kong, the city's government Friday said it would increase body temperature checks of all arriving passengers at immigration control checkpoints, including those at airport and ferry terminals, as a precautionary measure against the spreadof H7N9.
By combining the observational power of six 5-inch aperture telescopes spread over hundreds of feet, the NPOI is able to measure the size of stars down to one milliarcsecond on the sky.
As this result came with the benefit of hindsight, the researchers tried to come up with a real-time measure that could potentially provide an early warning sign of an outbreak as it began to spread.