We were in Guangzhou on a day trip from Hong Kong back in March. My partner came down with the flu and had a super-high fever. I could feel the heat radiating off of him. He was in pretty bad shape.
We went to the train station early and sat around for about two hours before our train doing nothing except loading him up with Advil to help bring down the fever. Amazingly, the fever broke maybe 10 minutes before we were supposed to board our train (you have to go through the scanners to leave China, as well), and we made it through the checkpoint back in Hong Kong. The fever came back as soon as we got back to our hotel in HKG. That short reprieve was clutch. Getting quarantined in mainland China would have been a nightmare.
Originally Posted by Kibison
It seems like every time I fly now, someone behind me or next to me has a hacking cough. Are there any masks available on the market that work reasonably well at stopping airborne viruses?
A high quality surgical mask (not those cheap masks they sell for construction workers) will help reasonably well with some viruses and bacteria.
See this article for more info:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2081235/