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A PLANE WAS quarantined at New York’s Kennedy Airport amid reports of numerous ill passengers aboard a flight from Dubai.
There were conflicting reports about how many people were sick aboard the Emirates flight, which landed around 9.10am local time (2pm Irish time)
The airline says about 10 passengers were ill and got medical attention “as a precaution.”
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about 100 of the 520 people aboard the plane were being evaluated after complaining of illness, including cough and fever.
Video from news helicopters showed the jet sitting on the tarmac surrounded by ambulances, vehicles and airport personnel.
Passengers were exiting the plane with their luggage and getting on to buses.
A New York police counterterrorism division tweeted it appeared to be a “medical situation.”
A passenger on the plane tweeted that a dozen ambulances and police cars met the flight at the airport. He said passengers had been told that people on the two-floor plane were ill.
He said passengers were allowed to get off the plane and had their temperatures taken.
They were then taken to the terminal and were allowed to make their way through customs.
- With reporting by Michelle Hennessy
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All Zombie movies start like this..time to stock up on beans and axes
@Barry O Rourke: straight to Lidl so!
@Barry O Rourke: First thing that popped in to my head! Very similiar circumstances to how The Strain starts, not exactly a zombie series but close enough!
@Barry O Rourke: get the slice pans
@Football in the Groin: I thought the exact same thing, just waiting on the reports of weirdos lashing out with long, teethed tounges
I’ve seen this one before. Blow up the plane and all its passengers now!!! While we still have time.
Doctor, Mr. Hammen ate fish, and Randy said there are five more cases, and they all had fish, too.
@Don Juan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOmD-xqK2Es
Found it! https://youtu.be/DkGR65CXaNA
@Don Juan: still one of the best comedies ever.
@Don Juan: I still quote lines from that film all the time, they never get old(for me anyway)
@John: surely not
I guess I picked the wrong day to quit drinking
@Harry: .. don’t call me Surely
@Don Juan: that’s right, i had the lasagne
This is it…it’s happening. Patient Zero has entered the building… which of us will be scavengers and which of us will perish? Will Dermot Desmond put us up in his new house until we acclimatise to this new zombie apocalypse?
Gotta be the Russians innit!?
@Cormac Ó Braonáin: someone wearing Russian perfume.
Ah 30 years ago if a load of passengers got the trots it was a case of “ok, who has the shellfish?” Problem solved, no panic.
The latest report is that 15 of the passengers are now dead………………..naaaaaaaaa i’m just kiddin’.
Thery’re fine. (sideways eyes).
Well did they have the chickens or the fish?
Chicken or Beef ?
@MA Hend: or Tricresylphosphate
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