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And you're wrong. I've asked numerous questions on how this could be accomplished and the best you can answer is that it might maybe somehow possibly save one persons's life. Bulldadda. Give a straight answer to the questions:
How do we know who is a "likely candidate"?
How will we quarantine them?
How long will they be quarantined?
How will we determine they actually have SARS?

Unless you can answer those questions any "plan" you come up with is a feel good measure doomed to be 100% innefective across the board. Yes epidemeology is a numbers game, and grabbing random people with the sniffles will waste a lot of numbers and accomplish ZERO.

One can specify that people from certain nations will not be allowed to deplane without "a note from their doctor" in the prior 48 hours indicating that he/she has found no symptoms of SARS -- and since they must have that in order to get thru customs, the folks at the point of departure should not choose to allow them on the plane in the first place.

(If necessary though, we could foot the bill to send the "WOP's" back.)