# 1920
The three-day pandemic exercise being held this weekend on the island of Bali wraps up today with this drill held at the island's International Airport.
A Hat tip to Carol@SC on the Wiki for this report from Economic Times.
Indonesia runs airport bird flu drill
27 Apr, 2008, 1308 hrs IST, AGENCIES
JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities on Sunday wrapped up a major three-day bird flu drill on the resort island of Bali with an exercise focused on passengers at the island's international airport.
In the simulation, departing passengers were made to pass a scanner that detects body temperature. Among the travellers were three undercover personnel who simulated having high fever but insisted on leaving on their flights.
Staff steered them to a clinic at the airport and when test results showed they might have bird flu infections, the three were sent to the main hospital in Denpasar.
Despite posters notifying the public of the exercise, some tourists appeared concerned by the operations, as all personnel involved in the operation were wearing face masks.
"We were a bit worried but then we saw the posters. It's fine, better be prepared," said Angela Foster, an Australian tourist who was to fly back home through the airport.
"It is important as part of our bird flu containment efforts. We do not want to export a disease," I Nyoman Kandun, the health ministry's director general for handling of infectious disease, told journalists at the airport.
The simulation was the last part of a national exercise practising how to contain the spread of a bird flu outbreak.
