Stansted Airport will not be screening airline passengers for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars).
A spokesman said: "The country from where the flight is travelling is the country that will screen the passengers.
"As we are not at risk, there is no need to screen passengers at this time."
In contrast Health Secretary Alan Milburn, during his first statement in the House of Commons since the outbreak of the disease, told MPs specific flights entering the country could be checked and passengers asked to sign a declaration that they had not had contact with the disease.
Mr Milburn said observers from the UK would be sent to airports receiving potentially-infected passengers to check that the exit screening from airports of departure to this country was robust.
A two-week ban on foreign doctors and nurses from affected areas taking up jobs in the NHS has already been put in place.
Mr Milburn added medical staff recruited by the NHS from the Far East and Canada would be asked to defer their starting date for 14 days after arriving in the UK to ensure they were free of the disease.
Stansted takes flights from at least three countries which receive airlines operating in Thailand, Singapore, Japan, China, New Zealand and Korea.
Sars has claimed the lives of 353 people in 27 countries worldwide.
Published Wednesday, April 30, 2003
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