CDC Investigating...Multiple Passengers Fall Ill On Separate International Flights...Philadelphia

cbs ^ | September 6, 2018 at 6:00 pm

[BenLurkin]

Full Headline: CDC Investigating After Multiple Passengers Fall Ill On Separate International Flights Coming Into Philadelphia International Airport

Officials say 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.

[Deaf Smith]

Common denominator meca?

[Deaf Smith]

Common denominator meca?

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

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...

Uh oh. Multiple flight origins, sounds like a coördinated effort to get infectious people into America's heart.

[Innovative]

See also:

Influenza may be cause of sickness for handful of crew, passengers on Emirates flight to JFK

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/health/new-york-plane-jfk-passengers-ill/index.html

[El Cid]

White Courtesy Telephone: “Paging Captain Trips’...

[2CAVTrooper]

It’s a test run for a biological attack.

Profile everyone on those planes.

[GOP Poet]

We’re approaching 9/11 anniversary as well . . . test runs for something more serious?

[Pearls Before Swine]

It’s a test run for a biological attack.

Profile everyone on those planes.

Alternate thought: Check the air filtration and recirculation systems on those planes, as well as anything else common to them.

I say this because I don't get sick very often in general, but there's a much higher probability of my catching something on a flight. I can't be alone--ever see the number of Chinese who wear surgical masks on airplanes?

[PlateOfShrimp]

Nine posts and nobody said “they must have had the fish”???

C’mon folks, we are slipping

It should be mandatory that every post has an Airplane/Animal House/Python/Christmas Story allusion within the first few posts!

[null and void]

About a week away, for an illness with about a one week incubation period...

[null and void]

Don’t look at me I had the lasagna.

[CJ Wolf]

Doubt it’s a test. Flu tends to travel to new places via airplanes. It does seem to be a bit of a coincidence to dismiss at this time. Watch out for localised out breaks of something or people bleeding thru thier eyes.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

My immediate thought, too. Testing the size of canister they can get past security and cabin dispersal.

[petitfour]

9/11 anniversary next week. It falls on a Tuesday which is what 9/11/01 was.

[roadcat]

It’s not yet known what caused the people to become sick.

No one taken to the hospital. No quarantine. Gee, what could possibly go wrong?

[null and void]

The ground crew could put a pretty large container in the ventilation system.

[dinodino]

Nonsense. It’s common to catch illnesses in international airports.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Individuals fall ill, yes. It’s happened to any frequent traveler.

But SIMULTANEOUSLY on two separate aircraft going to the same destination? That isn’t coincidence.

[dinodino]

Paris, Frankfurt, and Dubai are not the same place.