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USA - Plane carrying 10 - 19? sick passengers lands at JFK airport - Probably influenza

Gert van der Hoek

Gert van der Hoek

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[FONT=&quot]NEW YORK CITY (WABC) --[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Emergency crews are responding to JFK Airport after a jetliner carrying dozens of passengers described as seriously ill landed at JFK International Airport.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Emirates Flight 203 from Dubai arrived at 8:50 a.m. Wednesday.

As the plane was arriving, the pilot raised concerns that many of his passengers appeared to be sick with fevers over 100 degrees. Many were coughing.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Law enforcement and health officials are responding on the ground.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The plane is being held away from the terminals because of reports of possibly up to 100 sick people in board.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The passengers will be isolated at the airport and treated for whatever is ailing them.[/FONT]
 
Emirates Plane Quarantined at JFK After 100 Report Feeling Sick: Sources

Three people have been taken to hospital after a plane landed at JFK with at least 100 people on board reporting feeling sick, a law enforcement source says.

Emirates flight 203 from Dubai landed at John F. Kennedy airport Wednesday morning and was quarantined on the runway after about 100 of the 500 passengers reported feeling sick on board the flight, airport sources say.

The flight landed at JFK Wednesday morning about 9:10 a.m. where Port Authority Police and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were waiting in a staging area to check passengers. The mayor's office confirmed on Twitter that a plane had landed at JFK with sickened passengers, saying the aircraft had been quarantained.
 
 
[FONT=&quot]Eric Phillips‏Verified account @EricFPhillips 9m9 minutes ago More


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[FONT=&quot]Eric Phillips Retweeted Eric Phillips[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] 10 sick people off the plane and heading to Jamaica Hospital. Health officials taking others off one by one checking for symptoms. About 40 cleared and going to customs. A few others showing symptoms and being held for treatment and possible transport to hospital.
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Eric Phillips
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@EricFPhillips
50m50 minutes ago

*EDIT*: the flight was direct from Dubai. It appears some of the ill passengers came from Mecca before getting on in Dubai.


Eric Phillips
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22m22 minutes ago

432 now off and cleared. 8 more sick and being treated at the airport.
 
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/health/new-york-plane-jfk-passengers-ill/index.html

quotes:

Erin Sykes told CNN from the plane:
"It was so obvious that a large number of people were ill well before takeoff." "People were coughing the whole time. Now some people have fevers over 100," she said.
"They should never had been allowed to board."

"While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a source with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
said as many as 100 passengers reported feeling sick,
the airline said only about 10 passengers had "taken ill".

"Seven crew members and five passengers were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, a Port Authority source said. Other passengers are still being evaluated, the source said."
 
Update:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/reut...lling-ill.html

Quote:
"Eventually, the airline and the New York mayor's office said a total of 19 people were confirmed ill.
Three passengers and seven crew members went to the hospital, Dubai-based Emirates said."

Interesting numbers of sick passengers versus sick crew members.

I am thinking that all the 7 sick crew members, one way or the other, all had close contact with the original sick passager.
And the 2 sick passangers was possible 2 persons sitting nearby the original sick passager.
But the fact that seven crew members fell ill, within few hours, seem to point to that the original sick passager's illness is very contagious.

I fear that more of the passagers that was let go from the plane will turn up sick within the next 24 hours, hope I'm wrong !



Also another symptom has been observed by a passenger:

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/09...ck-passengers/

"Mahesh Varavooru says his wife was not one of numerous passengers who fell ill,
but she did see several people vomiting during the flight."

So the symptoms reported by now are:

fever
coughing
vomiting
 
Main street media (large national medias) often get the story details wrong in the early hours of an event. I would not necessarily believe any of the numbers yet. What do we know with 90%+ probability at this point?

1) A plane from Dubai landed at New York's JFK with some people feeling sick. The numbers have varied widely all day. Flu-like symptoms have been mentioned several times.

2) About 19ish people were referred for medical evaluation/assistance at a local hospital.

3) Hundreds of passengers from that flight were released to continue their day.

4) So far none of the hundreds of passengers that were released have reported an illness. None of the attending medical teams have reported any illness yet either.


So what are we looking for? Additional people showing signs of illness - first among exposed passengers and then their contacts. We will know more in the next 24 - 48 hours as most flu and other respiratory illnesses take at least that long to develop symptoms in people.

I expect local and national officials to manage the situation by issuing some press releases. They probably will report a diagnosis of the patients. Their primary concern is public health which also includes reducing panic.

For me - I am not looking at any main street media reports. They are behind the time line and some of them (as usual) are using a disease situation for click bait.

I am looking at local media reports, hospital press releases, reliable first hand accounts by those people at the scene.

We are monitoring the situation and we have no agenda except public health and human rights.

We are independent media.
 
Very odd, if it is flu, that so many should become severely symptomatic within hours, even with an ongoing epidemic at the point of embarkation it would be exceptional.
 
Kind of odd that a similar situation occurred yesterday Sept. 6th, 2018 in plane landing in Philadelphia airport:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/philade...es-2018-09-06/

CBS NEWS September 6, 2018, 5:03 PM
Multiple passengers fall ill on separate international flights to Philadelphia


quote:

"PHILADELPHIA -- Multiple passengers fell ill on separate international flights coming into Philadelphia International Airport on Thursday, CBS Philly reports. Officials said 12 passengers arriving at the airport on American Airlines flights from Paris and Munich experienced flu-like symptoms.
Multiple ambulances were dispatched to the airport."
 
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