'The Strain' is real! 100 fall ill on Emirates flight from Dubai to JFK

[LesClaypool]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cdc-responds-emirates-airlines-sick-160300600.html

A row of ambulances lined the tarmac as Emirates Flight 203 from Dubai landed at John F. Kennedy airport at 9:18 am on Wednesday morning. As many as 100 of the passengers had reported being sick with a cough and high fever, and upon landing, ten of them were brought to the hospital. The plane was held on the runway as authorities debated what to do with the ill passengers. According to tweets from passenger Larry Coben, all passengers have now made it off the plane.

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Doesn't anyone listen to Abraham Setrakian?! You don't pull those people off the plane!

 

[Fijimn]

They must have had the fish.

 

[Gonolz]

Emirates is an awesome airline, well except for the whole 100+ people getting sick thing.

 

[Random_John]

Is no one looking at the location from whence they came? Is anyone there sick? How many? Or do we only care about folks on a plane?

 

[Fijimn]

Is no one looking at the location from whence they came? Is anyone there sick? How many? Or do we only care about folks on a plane?

'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! ...

 

[LesClaypool]

'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! ...

Smack'em...Yack'em!

 

[Fijimn]

Smack'em...Yack'em!

COL' got to be! Y'know?

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Anti-vaxxers, the lot of them!

 

[Random_John]

I've read now that the number is 19 not 100.

 

[LesClaypool]

I've read now that the number is 19 not 100.

I don't know if it's been updated. The article's headline, when I posted it, said 100 fell ill and somewhere between 10-20 were hospitalized...but I imagine they're updating that as they get new info.

 

[cfbfan23]

 

[PoopandBoogers]

I've read now that the number is 19 not 100.

 

[RTM58]

I'm not at all concerned with the nine that refused medical attention.

 

[F4Gary]

Could be food poisoning.

 

[Gonolz]

I've read now that the number is 19 not 100.

So, if they were, say, pitbulls biting people, there really is no need to be concerned.

 

[Random_John]

Only if the Pittbulls weren't vaccinated. Vaccinated Pittbulls are A-OK!

 

[ReliableOstrich]

This is an instance where everyone would have been better off learning about it from a newspaper the next morning.

Breaking news is rarely complete news.

 

[LesClaypool]

This is an instance where everyone would have been better off learning about it from a newspaper the next morning.

Breaking news is rarely complete news.

My bad...

 

[seminole97]

Breaking news is rarely complete news.

Worse than incomplete, a lot of it ends up being wrong.
This provides fantastic fodder for conspiracies.

 

[OrlandNole]

So, if they were, say, pitbulls biting people, there really is no need to be concerned.

No pit bulls on the flight, but there was a vanilla ice.

 

[Gonolz]

No pit bulls on the flight, but there was a vanilla ice.

He was there to help.

 

[BelemNole]

Stop! Contaminate and listen!

 

[Random_John]

Stop! Contaminate and listen!

Ok, That was funny

 

[Fijimn]

So, two more flights were detained at JFK with the same illness symptoms.

To be honest, being a flesh eating mindless zombie may not be a bad deal during this football season.

 

[Random_John]

So, two more flights were detained at JFK with the same illness symptoms.

To be honest, being a flesh eating mindless zombie may not be a bad deal during this football season.

I could not find the story about more flights being delayed. Do you have the links?

 

[Fijimn]

I could not find the story about more flights being delayed. Do you have the links?

I just saw something in passing on the Twitter - so I may be guilty of fake news.

 

[RTM58]

I'm not at all concerned with the nine that refused medical attention.

Anybody watching the new show Condor?


CHICAGO: Two major health scares at US airports involving inbound flights are related to pilgrims returning from the Haj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which ended in late August, US health officials said on Friday.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/mecca-pilgrims-ill-us-airports-haj-saudi-arabia-10696946