Posted on 10/04/2014 11:24:43 AM PDT by mdittmar
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention responded Saturday to a report of a sick passenger on an international flight that landed in Newark, New Jersey.
Erica Dumas, a spokeswoman with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, confirmed to CBS News that the CDC was responding to a report of a passenger vomiting onboard United Airlines Flight 998 from Brussels.
United spokeswoman Jennifer Dohm said in a statement that upon arrival at Newark Liberty International Airport, medical professionals instructed that passengers and crew remain onboard until the sick passenger could be assisted.
The flight landed at approximately 1 p.m. with 255 passengers onboard, Dumas said.
The Port Authority Police Department also responded to the report.
The report comes within days of the CDC announcing the first case of the Ebola virus diagnosed in the U.S.
That patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, flew to the United States on United after a layover in Brussels.
I think we need to add the word “prevention” to the CDC name. I don’t think they get the concept.
Maybe the CDCP, Center for Disease Control and Prevention would recommend shutting down flights from West Africa and passengers with West Africa passports.
They keep saying they have it under control. How about preventing it from happening?
It doesn’t make sense. I try to not have tin foil hat syndrome but dog gone it. Forcing people to remain exposed makes no sense other than to think they want more infected.
WEll, that’s probably the best shot we have of the flights getting restricted...
Lives aren’t important enough - but when it hits them in the pocketbook...via stock sell off and canceled flights - they’ll listen.
If they DO finally shut those flights down, I wonder if pres. obolo will use his pen to make a law requiring them to re=open...
bfl
At this point, I can’t see that there is the slightest question.
Just look at how they spread the sick Salvadoran kids to as many schools as possible.
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so now there’s THIS: excerpt: “s the hospital’s director, who had diarrhea and was vomiting repeatedly, but tested negative for the Ebola virus. ... When the director didn’t respond to treatment, a second test was done, which came back positive. That was 10 days after his first test. “
http://m.sciencemag.org/content/346/6205/17.full
So, in this New Jersey case, they did a quick test and determined he’s fine.
Is he being watched?
Are the flight attendants who had to deal with this being tracked and watched?
Are the passengers who were breathing the recycled air being cautioned and watched
Is this deliberate?
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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