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 Base Line from ICE ICE BABY came from David Bowie, not Queen.
Emirates is an outstanding airline. Among the finest. Up there with Singapore Air.
Could be. I only heard that it was Bowie’s Bass Rhythm line.
I do like watching Vanilla Ice’s HGTV Show though. Bring on the bling...
My kids asked why they had flu alerts, mandates to get flu shots, news reports on flu case numbers. I said it was because we still remembered the lesson of the Spanish Flu a century ago.
The flu could still become a serious killer.
"Under Pressure" is a 1981 song by the British rock band Queen and the British singer David Bowie. It was included on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Queen's second number-one hit in their home country (after 1975's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which topped the chart for nine weeks) and Bowie's third (after 1980's "Ashes to Ashes" and the 1975 reissue of "Space Oddity"). The song only peaked at No. 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1982, and would re-chart for one week at No. 45 in the US following Bowie's death in January 2016. It was also number 31 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s.[1] It has been voted the second best collaboration of all time in a poll by the Rolling Stone magazine.[2]
“Probably not food poisoning.”
Probably true. If food poisoning, then gastro-intestinal would be the issue. This sounds like respiratory. (Sounds a lot like our whole group came down with during and/or the day after a cruise.)
“Quarantine that plane, top off the tanks with Jet A fuel, fresh catering and beverages, and send it right back where it came from.”
I was with you for a minute, but I was thinking “match book”. But yours works, too, I guess.
Yes, and whenever most people (except us Old Geezer types) hear it they automatically think of Vanilla Ice. LOL
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/emergency-crews-respond-to-reports-of-sick-plane-passengers
There were about 500 people on Flight #EK203 from Dubai.
Of these passengers, approximately 100 complained of cough and fever.
" In a statement, Emirates (the airline officials ) said that "about" 10 passengers became ill and local health authorities were alerted "as a precaution."
But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said about 100 of the people aboard the plane
were being evaluated after complaining of illness, including cough and fever.
Now, who do you believe ?.. The airline, or the CDC ?
9 were sick with symptoms and refused treatment. 10 are in the hospital.
Yes I remember I had the lasagna
Wow. Really? Got any more on this? I will go looking too.
“Yeah, this one gal didn’t want to go to the hospital.”
“Jamaica?”
“Well of course we did - it was a mandatory quarantine!”
I really am hoping that is some poster making crap up.
I heard it was a non-stop flight.
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Thanks for the recent update
However, it fails to address the reported fever issue among passengers..
I am sure there will be a statement by the CDC before this evenings news cycle.
Exactly......
The incubation for flu is longer than a flight from Dubia to New York so that's out... chemicals would have taken out more than a hundred and effected children to an extreme. So that's out. Scary stuff...
Vanilla Ice is on that plane.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/5/vanilla-ice-aboard-emirates-flight-quarantined-jfk/
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