Posted on 10/24/2014 9:52:24 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A plane from Washington D.C.'S Dulles International Airport has been grounded at Columbia Metropolitan Airport due to a sick passenger on board, according a spokesperson for the Columbia Metropolitan Airport.
The passenger had a reported nosebleed, and the plane was being held on the ramp Friday morning, according to airport spokeswoman Kaela Harmon.
A nosebleed is a symptom of advanced Ebola, a deadly virus that has killed nearly 5,000 worldwide, including one victim in the United States. Caution is high because of recent outbreaks of the disease in Dallas, and a confirmed case of the virus in New York announced Friday.
Harmon described the chance the passenger has Ebola as “very, very low.”
The article pic shows the plane with no ground power hooked up. To stop air circulation?
(As a life-long Airline Schmuck, can I ask who gets the lucky job of dumping the lav?)
Please tell me its not Bush’s fault again.
Keep tellin' yourself that, darlin' . . .
South Carolina ???
Reality will finally hit the administration when you have some country like Brazil or Panama....ID some guy on the plane with a fever (they will actually board the plane and take each person’s temp), and then they say ONE person has a temp...we refuse to allow anyone off the plane, and it returns to the US.
Within forty-eight hours after that...the crap will hit the fan. Every airline will be in total fear of the cost to them, and the administration will be sweating over how to smile and play out this “I’m OK” game.
“A nosebleed is a symptom of advanced Ebola”
yeah, also dry nasal passages, high blood pressure, various medications and a myriad of other causes”
The person would be extremely ill with other complaints & symptoms besides a nosebleed.
Yes.
N835As is ExpressJet...
Good grief. There are numerous reasons for nosebleeds, and high altitude, low air pressure doesn’t help.
Yup.
SC Ping Worthy?
Well, Dulles is a designated entry point for Ebola.
We'll send you our sick and infectious.
Life is just a series of punny ironies, these days
Looks like the USA has become an important Ebola vector.
One of the few accomplishments of the current administration.
Yes, if they also came from West Africa. Otherwise no, until Obola manages to entrain Ebola into the general population.
Apparently not. This passenger did not travel to or from Africa.
I’ve had nosebleeds on flights before - including one memorable time leaving Colorado where the stews would not stop their in-flight instructions to offer help. Absent any other symptoms, it is probably a false alarm. I understand all the precautions but I’m guessing this one is going to turn out to be no big deal.
Makes me wonder about athletes who get their nose busted in some competition and then have to fly home. Imagine them needing to be quarantined instead as a precaution.
Ok, well then we are needlessly panicking but that is just stpe one of Obola’s attack on America. First create panic, then desensitize (panic fatigue), then drop the hammer.
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