Posted on 09/05/2018 12:52:29 PM PDT by Innovative
Federal health officials met a plane landing Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after passengers reported feeling ill, according to sources.
Emirates Flight 203, which originated in Dubai, was carrying more than 500 passengers and landed around 9:06 a.m. ET, a source with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said.
All passengers were screened, the airline said, and three passengers and seven crew members were transported to a hospital for treatment and evaluation.
"I asked the (flight attendant) for a mask before we even took off, but there was none available," passenger Erin Sykes told CNN from the plane. "It was so obvious that a large number of people were ill well before takeoff."
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I hope they will be able to diagnose and treat the people.
Incubation periods are much longer than even a flight from the Middle East. I doubt that people caught something on the plane, unless they had the fish....
And they let them land in this country why again?
More articles are showing up about this:
Emirates flight with nearly two dozen sick passengers lands at JFK
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/emirates-flight-100-sick-passengers-lands-jfk-n906716
Any of them have drinking problems?
This is how the Zombie Apocalypse begins.
19 confirmed ill. 10 hospitalized.
Michael Moore must have been on the plane. The stench overcame everybody.
Shirley not.
When will they start the Pandemic Scare ?
The Strain
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a beta test ?
The hospital! What is it?
“And they let them land in this country why again?”
American Hajis returning home to bring us cultural enrichment.
I guess the lasagna was ok.
This Fall, it will be the 100th anniversary of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Well, they were all working and are covered by worker’s comp.
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