On Saturday at Newark Airport, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials rushed to meet with a United Airlines flight from Brussels and removed a passenger, believed to be from Liberia, suspected of having Ebola.
The CDC crew responded to flight 998 in full hazmat gear and took the man and his daughter to University Hospital in Newark for further evaluation. According to a senior federal official, the passenger was manifesting "flu-like symptoms." The passenger was reportedly vomiting in the plane but did not exhibit other Ebola-like symptoms.
"He's now being treated with protocols as if he has it, but no clear indication at this point that he does," the official said.
ABC News reported that United Airlines released a statement saying, "Upon arrival at Newark Airport from Brussels, medical professionals instructed that customers and crew of United flight 998 remain on board until they could assist an ill customer. We are working with authorities and will accommodate our customers as quickly as we can."
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6 comments:
At some point the airlines will stop flights on their own accord.customers will soon quit flying if they don't. Obama won't. He plans on the u.s. being a third world country.
Airlines just need to quit flying to those countries and bringing people here from those countries. Let them dream about the U.S. in their dreams.
The only problem is, one of these passengers contracts Ebola and spreads it around to all their friends before they even realize they have Ebola.
Even more fear mongering...
No one is fearful 1:58 just ticked off that we should even have to discuss this. There is no reason whatsoever that people entering the US from infected countries are allowed free access. NONE! We quarantine pets to keep disease from spreading.
If we had a competent administration, the rule would be and would have been since beginning of breakout that if you enter the US from one of these countries be prepared to be quarantined in a secure, restricted and guarded area. If this doesn't suit you or is not to your liking then stay away.
Not only Obama but the democrats as a whole are turning the US into a 3rd World country.
OH...flu season is going to be very entertaining this year.
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