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Sixteen people were hospitalized upon arrival at Toulouse. All return from a trip to Bangkok after transiting through Dubai and Nice. H1N1 flu cases are suspected.The passengers and crew of a Nice-Toulouse flight were placed in quarantine Thursday afternoon at garonnais Blagnac Airport. A measure taken as a preventive measure due to the presence on board passengers who cough much and revennaient of a stay in Bangkok, Asia. Some were taken from fever. A case which concerns a case of H1N1 flu.P:ENDOAS_AD('Position1'); cachePubVide ('idPosition1');P:STARTLes 47 passengers were still confined on the tarmac in early evening. Inside the unit, a medical team took them in charge. At the end of these medical examinations, sixteen people have been hospitalized. Others were allowed to return home.
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Re: Toulouse: 16 passengers of a return flight from Bangkok hospitalized
According to our information, the crew and passengers of a Nice-Toulouse flight (47 people) have been placed in quarantine late in the afternoon at the airport of Blagnac. The origin of this exceptional measure, the State of health of one of the travelers who kept coughing. He was returning from a trip to Asia. Airport authorities, fearing a case of H1N1 or another disease highly contaminating, did not risk and have blocked the ATR42 on the tarmac. Around 7 pm, the passengers and crew were still forced to stay inside, supported by a medical team.
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Re: Toulouse: 16 passengers of a return flight from Bangkok hospitalized
Sixteen passengers of a flight from Nice to Toulouse-Blagnac have been hospitalized after being placed in quarantine this Thursday night due to a risk of contamination to the H1N1 flu virus. A man travelling in the aircraft and returning from Asia would have alerted the crew by his incessant cough revealed M6 Thursday evening.Airport authorities, fearing a contagion of H1N1 or another contagious disease, blocked the 47 passengers on the plane before you raise a doctor on board. Sixteen people were evacuated to H?pital Purpan in Toulouse. According to France Info, the other passengers and crew members were able to leave the airport. Among the passengers of this flight Hop, at least 39 passengers had made layover in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) return from Bangkok (Thailand).
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Re: Toulouse: 16 passengers of a return flight from Bangkok hospitalized - - H1N1 suspected
Clearly, entry point officers are suspecting other infectious diseases than the seasonal influenza H1N1pdm09, that does not longer require patients' quarantine at all since the virus is circulating in humans during current winter community outbreaks.
Some of the passengers may have a travel history from Middle East and the level of suspicion for MERS-CoV may have suggested to airport authorities to verify their health situation before leaving them out. GMComment
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Re: Toulouse: 16 passengers of a return flight from Bangkok hospitalized - - H1N1 suspected
Toulouse: false virus H1N1 alert
An alert to the virus H1N1, which has resulted in thursday placement in quarantine of 47 persons and the immobilization of a plane on the tarmac of the airport of Toulouse, was lifted on Friday, have announced the local health authorities. 'The people are bearers of a simple flu', said the directorate of communication of the CHU toulousain which has supported 16 people Thursday evening, adding that they were all outputs of the hospital. Forty-seven people had been placed in a prime time in quarantine at the airport due to coughing and fevers noticed during the flight from Nice. Some passengers were traveling from Bangkok, 'what aeveille the suspicions of the passengers and crew', said Marc Dupeyron, The person responsible for the communication of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport .The virus H1N1 is responsible for the flu pandemic has occurred in 2009, including the first cases appeared in the United States and Mexico, and who has been around the world in six weeks. According to the initial estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO), this pandemic has resulted in 18,500 deaths, but, according to a study, may have killed up to 579,000 people.
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Re: Toulouse: 16 passengers of a return flight from Bangkok hospitalized - - H1N1 suspected
No more fear for that. The 16 passengers on the flight of the low-cost company Hop! Between Toulouse and Nice are not infected by the virus of the H1N1 influenza and are returned to their home in the night from Thursday to Friday. A little earlier in the evening, they had been hospitalized in the CHU of Purpan after having declared that they suffer from coughing and fever during the flight which had departed at 16h22 on the Cote d'Azur. Of passengers passed through Thailand and BangkokLes symptoms presented were thinking to a suspicion of H1N1 flu outbreak: a part of them came from Bangkok, Thailand, and had transited through Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. A landing at Toulouse, the staff of the Samu is mounted in the aircraft to check the health status of travellers. All of the 47 passengers and staff of the company have been placed a time in quarantine on the inside of the airport Toulouse-Blagnac , before they can reach their homes.
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Re: Toulouse: 16 passengers of a return flight from Bangkok hospitalized - - H1N1 suspected
French jet placed in quarantine after passengers develop symptoms of swine flu and crew discover they had all recently been to Asia
Some 47 passengers started coughing and spluttering while others developed a fever
Sixteen were taken to hospital for further testing but found to be suffering only a simple flu and were discharged today
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