Alarm after vomiting passenger dies on flight from Nigeria to JFK

NY Post ^ | 10-16-2014 | Philip Messing and Laura Italiano

[tcrlaf]

A plane from Nigeria landed at JFK Airport Thursday with a male passenger aboard who had died during the flight after a fit of vomiting — and CDC officials conducted a “cursory” exam before announcing there was no Ebola and turning the corpse over to Port Authority cops to remove, Rep. Peter King said on Thursday.

The congressman was so alarmed by the incident — and by what he and employees see as troubling Ebola vulnerabilities at JFK — that he fired off a letter to the federal Department of Homeland Security demanding more training and tougher protocols for handling possible cases there.

The unnamed, 63-year-old passenger had boarded an Arik Air plane out of Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday night, a federal law enforcement source said.

During the flight, the man had been vomiting in his seat, the source said. Some time before the plane landed, he passed away. Flight crew contacted the CDC, federal customs officials and Port Authority police, who all boarded the plane at around 6 a.m. as about 145 worried passengers remained on board, the source said.

[Chode]

tooo damn funny...

[morphing libertarian]

Well, at least Ebola free

Ya’ll come on in

[BuffaloJack]

The told us earlier in the week that it takes 72 hours to determine if Ebola is present.
Now a quick visual inspection of a man who vomited to death and they tell us it isn’t Ebola.
How dumb do they think people are?

[HandyDandy]

Bad case of jungle fever.

[Phillyred]

[G Larry]

Some group of somebodies has some very warped priorities.

[dfwgator]

[the OlLine Rebel]

Influenza does not typically cause vomiting. If anything, it is incidental, and more likely in children.

[HandyDandy]

This is getting to be kinda like that Ice-bucket challenge. Only different.

[leapfrog0202]

Sad thing, here, is we can’t trust the government to be honest.

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That is exactly right. With all the spinning and lies that are being put out there about Ebola, I wouldn’t believe the zero administration if they said the sky is blue.

[Celtic Conservative]

No fever. As a matter of fact upon arrival he had assumed room temperature...

CC

[CitizenM]

So he flew from Nigeria. But does anyone know if he was in West Africa before Nigeria? Maybe he knew he had been exposed to Ebola and went to Nigeria to catch a flight out.

[Flick Lives]

Best movie line before things go horribly wrong!

[mplsconservative]

That is a very good question. Geez, this is a clusterpluck.

[dfwgator]

ORLY?

No that's in Paris.

[Sequoyah101]

And he didn’t have a fever when he got off so no problem. /s

when the hell are they going to learn that you can’t shut the door after the horse has left the barn and expect to do any good.

This is going to become unnecessarily dreadful and the ones with blood on their hands don’t give a damn.

[ClearCase_guy]

LOL!

[DoughtyOne]

Well people are still dying to get here.

[a fool in paradise]

If people weren’t expected to throw up mid-flight, there wouldn’t be barf bags located in each seat pocket.

[a fool in paradise]

Perhaps one of the in-flight stations was a selection of streaming Obama speeches (such as those he gifted to the Queen on an iPod).