Posted on 10/16/2014 7:08:26 PM PDT by 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.
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Have those who are saying it is not Ebola board the plane and clean it.
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.
Oooh that's going take care of the problem. Peter King firing off a stern letter to the DHS.
Geez! Stop all flights now from countries that have Ebola outbreaks,
I can’t remember all the times I’ve flown, and invariably some joker starts puking and then dies. Nothing to see here.
That's not a given. When, the end varies and depends on other health status factors of the victim.
But, bureaucrats continue to pretend, because they protect themselves by hiding behind the numbers. Everybody do what CDC says, because if you *think* using both the CDC's box and outside that box because you're a warfighter, then some leftist government absolutists will nip away at your life.
The CDC is incorrectly cited often by its own people and other government bureaucrats, that "you can only get Ebola from contact ..."
When, the CDC documentation actually says you can get Ebola from any method of transmission of a fluid (including airborne transmission of that fluid) from a contagious Ebola victim ... to you. ("saliva or mucus ... these fluids may transmit the disease")
That is similar, now, to Obama's sharp contrast in an earlier statement that the chances of an Ebola outbreak in the USA were small ... only to lately (yesterday?) ... state that such an outbreak is not likely to be serious.
The goal posts keep moving.
“state that such an outbreak is not likely to be serious.”
To the person who gets Ebola, it’s pretty damn serious.
But Obama does not CARE, the doses of ZMAPP for him and his is already safely secured, I’m 100% sure.
LOL yep that’ll teach em.
Taking a living person with a fevor and asking “Does this person have early-stage Ebola?” takes 3 days or so.
Taking a dead person and asking “Did this person die from Ebola?” takes about 3 seconds.
The person vommited and then died. Did the vomit contain blood, bile, and liquified organs? No? Not Ebola then. Give the stomach a good hard poke. Internal organs still there? Not mushy? Not ebola then.
They *could* have waltzed around for an hour or so in their space suits, but that would be pure security theater.
Good points.
Watch how much info comes out about this guy. If any.
How long does it take for ebola to kill someone; would he have at first been strong enough to walk on the plane yet later have the rapid decline and violent symptoms?
as someone said he could have drowned in his own vomit in early stages of ebola
I wish they would start posting their seat numbers.
Ebola is not terribly rapid, no. It takes several days — up to about two weeks — to progress from feeling ill to either recovery or death. One of the things that makes Ebola so terrifying is that it is a lingering, horrific death.
We await test results for days (sometimes, up to 5 days) on a live patient.
But the ‘test’ on a dead one is immediate?
I’d like to know more about the different tests CDC used.
But to actually puke and die is a bit extreme.
All true.
But, we don’t want none of those here either.
Who says they want to solve problems? Once all the problems are solved, then they’re out of a job.
All they want is to keep their office (or inspire to a higher one).
Ok, I am not the swiftest when it comes to things like this, but how is this guy going to answer any of the questions that are part of the new screening process at JFK...Man, they may have to quarantine this fellow for the entire 18-21 days...
Is that code word, Obola?
Since it was cleared that the person did not die of Ebola disease, those on board are ‘not at risk’. How reassuring.
I also wonder how those passengers feel right now.
Maybe just a little.
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