CDC responds to sick passenger on international flight

CBS News ^ | October 4, 2014, | CBS News

[mdittmar]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention responded Saturday to a report of a sick passenger on an international flight that landed in Newark, New Jersey.

Erica Dumas, a spokeswoman with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, confirmed to CBS News that the CDC was responding to a report of a passenger vomiting onboard United Airlines Flight 998 from Brussels.

United spokeswoman Jennifer Dohm said in a statement that upon arrival at Newark Liberty International Airport, medical professionals instructed that passengers and crew remain onboard until the sick passenger could be assisted.

The flight landed at approximately 1 p.m. with 255 passengers onboard, Dumas said.

The Port Authority Police Department also responded to the report.

The report comes within days of the CDC announcing the first case of the Ebola virus diagnosed in the U.S.

That patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, flew to the United States on United after a layover in Brussels.

[mdittmar]

Whole lot of responding going on out there.

[tumblindice]

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/

[Cementjungle]

The report comes within days of the CDC announcing the first case of the Ebola virus diagnosed in the U.S.

It also comes within one day of senior Obama officials promising us that they're carefully screening passengers coming to the US on planes.

[maine-iac7]

If the airlines, the CDC AND the administration doesn’t immediately shut down flights/flyers from those countries - they should be held criminally responsible.

I wonder how long before pilots and personnel refuse to fly on those flights?

He vomited on the plane - it’s airborne - into a closed system where it recirculates - and all those passengers have been exposed.

Did they do anything to document just who was on the plane, what their destination is and where they live - and make arrangements for them to be monitored for 3 weeks? Have they at least been cautioned not to do a lot of travel and socializing for 3 weeks.

Of course not.

Of course not.

[txhurl]

Prayers for Onona’s wife... hope she was far away from the passenger, who is black. Heading to DFW?

[DoughtyOne]

Haven't we been told they screen these folks in other nations, so that people dangerous to the U. S. don't wind up on our soil in the first place?

I guess we can chalk that up as another whopping untruth.


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[annieokie]

If the airlines want to stay in business, they better do something on their own. I now know that I will never fly again.

I bet that plane will be back in service within a hour or so after removing the infected.

[Boundless]

> I wonder how long before pilots and personnel refuse to fly on those flights?

Shortly after the first airline employee tests positive, maybe sooner.

The employees are likely to act before the airlines do, and the airlines are likely to act before the regime does.

[tennmountainman]

Surely not ebola, just a terrible flight meal that made him puke his
guts up.

[Boundless]

> I now know that I will never fly again.

And to continue a previous remark ...

Customers are apt to act before anyone else.

In my day job, management recently proposed an otherwise interesting assignment, but they wanted me to spend some time abroad for it. Told ‘em I have no plans to renew my passport, or travel on public transport for the foreseeable future (and not just due to EHV, but it’s the final nail in that particular coffin, so to speak).

All scheduled flights have been cancelled due to lack of interest.

[Snickering Hound]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungi_International_Airport

One airline left flying out of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Brussels Airlines flying to, you guessed it, Brussels.

[CynicalBear]

>>medical professionals instructed that passengers and crew remain onboard until the sick passenger could be assisted.<<

Say WHAT???? Are they intentionally trying to get as many infected as possible?

[Boundless]

> Surely not ebola, just a terrible flight meal that made him puke his guts up.

Bringing new meaning to the old phrase “air sickness”.

The present cases may well turn out to be nothing more than motion sickness, aggravated by the alleged food airlines serve, but the costs of emergency response are going to be almost as steep as actual infections.

As long as tubular petri dishes are still flying out of pandemic regions, even a steady pace of of false alarms will make this a very expensive outbreak - expense that was trivially avoidable.

[GOPJ]

Quarantine the African Hot Zone... Stop flights out...

[Don Corleone]

“You can keep your Ebola if you like it”

[onona]

I know I’m done flying.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Are they intentionally trying to get as many infected as possible?” <<

.
Wuz that a ree-torical qweschun?

Anyway, of course!

[annieokie]

and not just due to EHV, but it’s the final nail in that particular coffin, so to speak......

I understand. In fact if I had a reservation to anywhere, I would cancel and forfeit the fare.

Planned destruction of America's economy? As if it could not be anymore destroyed, but guess it was not quick enough for Zero and his ILK.

Planned Population Control? (if that were the case keep it where they don't have any regard for overpopulating it's just what they do, but that wouldn't be FAIR would it?)

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

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Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

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So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[onona]

You got it !

Sell off that airline stock now, cause you which way that's going......