8 CHRONICLE &ECHO WWW.NORTHAMPTONCHRON.CO.UK FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2009 Travel INFORMATION SwineFluInsight: As the world braces SPEED CAMERAS

Police traffic safety cameras will be at the Firm called following locations in : TODAY: ■ A361 Welton in for swine Pandemic ■ C196 Royal Oak Way South, Daventry ■ A5 Long Buckby to Watford ■ A43 Collyweston ■ A43 Duddington flu outbreak ■ A43 Collyweston to Easton on the Hill ■ A6 Burton Latimer bypass ■ A43 Collyweston

TOMORROW: ■ B4525 Helmdon ■ A5 Towcester ■ B4100 Aynho ■ A361 Kilsby ■ A5 Crick ■ A428 ■ A5076 Northampton ■ A508 to Grafton Regis ■ A508 Grafton Regis PETROL WATCH

The lowest prices for unleaded petrol in Northampton: ■ Technical support engineer Charles Barlow ■ Morrisons, Victoria Promenade ...... 94.9p of Irisys with the thermal imaging camera ■ Spar, Westbridge...... 94.9p CE picture by TRACEY CHAMBERS 090430TC4 ■ Abington Express, Wellingboro Rd*.....94.9p ■ Morrisons, Kettering Road ...... 94.9p AN INTELLIGENCE technology company in ■ Shell, Road# ...... 94.9p Northampton has been inundated with calls The lowest prices for diesel in about its infrared device which can detect fever Northampton: in light of the imminent swine flu pandemic. ■ Morrisons, Victoria Promenade ...... 101.9p Irisys, based in Swan Valley, Northampton, cre- ■ Morrisons, Kettering Road ...... 101.9p ated the IRI 2010 which sets off an alarm if any- one passes through its infrared rays at a tem- ■ Far Cotton Filling Station ...... 102.9p perature of 38C or higher. ■ W Grose, Kingsthorpe Hollow# ...... 102.9p It was in huge demand during the SARS (severe ■ TCS, Towcester Road...... 102.9p respiratory syndrom) outbreak in Singapore in Prices correct as of April 29 (*27/#28), 2009. 2003, and airports are now enquiring about the More prices available at www.petrolprices.com device to help contain swine flu. Nick Stogdale, customer service manager at the ROADWORKS company, said: “It is a product that we have made for a good number of years now. We basi- Current roadworks on roads in and around cally got asked by some of our customers about ■ Medics in full body Northampton include: whether [infrared technology] can be used in protective gear work in ■ HUNSBURY: Two-way traffic signals in this way. the emergency area Banbury Lane, Northampton, for roadworks. “You can see hot spots which makes it imme- where people with swine ■ KINGSTHORPE/BOUGHTON: Two-way diately obvious if someone has a fever. flu-like symptoms are traffic signals in Brampton Lane during work “If you have people passing through immi- attended at the Naval on footpath and verges. gration points they can pass through these cam- hospital in Mexico City ■ NORTHAMPTON: Multi-way traffic signals eras and you get a heat measurement and a tem- Picture by AP Photo/Enric Marti in Cherry Lodge Road, Northampton, for perature reading. construction of roundabout at junction with “It’s a way of seeing a lot of people very Wellingborough Road (ends this week). quickly.” ■ NORTHAMPTON: Lane closure in Eagle The normal body temperature of a person is 37C Drive, Northampton, for work on footpath. and, if it goes higher than 38C, that person is usu- For more roadworks visit ally suffering some kind of fever, which could be www.northamptonshire.gov.uk a sign that someone is coming down with swine Hospitals put flu. If caught at this stage, the disease could be con- COMMUTING tained so that further people do not catch it. A unit installed for a three-day trial at Changi ROADS: Southbound slip of M1 at Junctions 15 Airport in Singapore during the SARS outbreak TOCKpiles of anti-viral drugs and In Northamptonshire hospitals and and 15A (11pm to 5am) work until June 5. detected a suspected case of the syndrome on Sprotective clothing are being pre- GP surgeries are on standby to deal RAIL: London Midland: From Saturday, the second morning. pared by the UK Government as with a deluge of patients and cope 7.30am, to 1.30pm on Monday: Reduced ser- Mr Stogdale emphasised that the device is the world waits to see if the swine flu with a potential loss of staff, should outbreak reaches a pandemic scale. they fall ill as well. vice from Euston and Central, not a diagnostics tool, and will not say whether with buses between Milton Keynes and someone has got swine flu or SARS, but shows if Over the next few days every home Health chiefs recently rubber- Northampton; 7.30am Saturday to 4pm on Sun- someone is suffering a symptom of a fever. across the country should receive a stamped plans to combat any out- day, buses between Rugby and Northampton; leaflet giving advice on the new H1N1 break of influenza in Sunday to 8am, buses Euston to Northampton. virus with information about the out- Northamptonshire following minor Virgin Trains: Saturday & Sunday, hourly ser- break and advice on preventing its concerns last month that the county could have been under prepared. vice between between Euston and Coventry, HEAT Seeking spread. via High Wycombe, not Rugby. Until noon on The virus broke out in Mexico last A spokesman for NHS Monday, weekend services start and end at weekend killing a suspected 169 peo- Northamptonshire said the worries Rugby. Shuttle Euston to Milton Keynes. Buses ple and has since spread to Europe, have been addressed and the county was vigilant against an outbreak. Milton Keynes to Northampton and Rugby. America, Canada and New Zealand. There have been five confirmed cases He added that the county had in the UK but all are responding well enough antiviral tablets for one in MORE INFORMATION to treatment, and only one death out- four people in the county but was side Mexico, of a Mexican child being WEBSITES &TELEPHONE CONTACTS: working towards stockpiling enough treated in Texas, America. TRANSPORT IN LONDON: for half the population. www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/realtime/ Yesterday the World Health Dr Anthony Pickering, chairman of tube/default.html Organisation raised the alert level to the Local Medical Committee and a RAIL: www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_ five, out of a possible six, indicating GP at Denton surgery, said that human to human transmission in at bulletins/today.html#engineering although they were prepared, surg- least two countries, and an ‘imminent’ eries were not sitting on piles of drugs (National Rail 0845 7484950) pandemic. and clothing, as these were being ROADS: www.trafficengland.com stored in depots by the Government. (Traffic 08700 660 115) Liam Donaldson the Government’s www.highways.gov.uk/traffic/ chief medical advisor has warned that He explained: “The Health (Highways Agency 08700 660 115) ■ How the teechnology detects different levels Britain will see “many, many more Protection Agency has identified pro- of body heat to check for signs of illness cases” of swine flu but that most of tective clothing that health personnel those affected will recover. would require in event of a pandemic - www.NorthamptonChron.co.uk