Posted on 09/05/2018 7:57:48 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg
Title Truncated{ "MILE HIGH PANIC Emirates plane quarantined at JFK after 100 people suddenly fall ill with fevers and coughs on board"
MORE than 100 passengers have reportedly been struck down with a mystery illness on an Emirates flight, with reports of coughing and high fevers.
Flight 203 from Dubai was heading to New York when 100 of the 500 passengers became ill, NBC New York reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
The “suddenly” part is what’s scary.
MILE HIGH?
NYC isn’t Denver
Sillie jernalust
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Shouldn’t have eaten the fish.
Did they have the chicken or the fish?
This could be bad.
They had a choice of steak or fish.
I had the lasagna.
A new way to stay in the US ?
However, the plane was several miles high during most of its flight.
Another article noted that the plane stopped in Mecca to pick up passengers, before heading for NYC. Flu outbreak there.
Eyewitness on the flight (as per the reported story linked) claims people boarded that were already sick UE is claiming only ten now reporters say nearly 100 Hopefully we have a reporting error because if ten got on sick and now there is 100 this is about as scary as it get for possible bio weapon.
Personal safety is a personal responsibility. Quarantine that plane, top off the tanks with Jet A fuel, fresh catering and beverages, and send it right back where it came from.
Pork ...
That makes me feel a bit better.
Impossible they were infected with ebola by jihadi terrorists and then sent here to spread it. No sane people would do such a thing.
A government source briefed on situation said there was no evidence of a security or terror issue. Emirates home office told U.S. officials it believes this incident was caused by food poisoning.
Eric Phillips, spokesman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, posted that the plane had made a stop in Mecca and passengers may have been exposed to a flu epidemic underway in the city.
Haven’t there been “odor scares” on planes lately? Trial runs?
“Paging Chuck Schumer, time to represent your constituants in NYC.”
Make sure any healthy children remain with their sick parents!
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