With the ongoing 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak escalating to 10,000 reported cases with 4,500 deaths in Nigeria, Liberia, and Sierra Leone; the World Health Organization has stated “the current epidemic of EVD, caused by Ebola virus, is the most severe outbreak of Ebola since the finding of ebolaviruses in 1976. The epidemic has caused significant mortality, with a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) reported as 71%.”

With no signs of slowing down or an accessible cure, governments are now taking necessary steps to prevent the virus from spreading into foreign borders. One tool being thermal imaging cameras for scanning high body temperatures among large crowds of people. The procedure is a fast, easy, and non-invasive method to identity and test potential carriers of the disease who show signs of fever-like symptoms.

Learn About Our Thermal Fever Detection System

Benefits of thermal imaging as a screening tool:

• Quick and non-invasive application
• Real-time images that take less than a second, allowing crowds to keep moving
• Rapid screening of large numbers of people
• Heat pictures detect and display even the smallest temperature differences
• Options allow you to create a visual heat map of skin temperatures in real time