Two health scares at U.S. airports tied to Mecca pilgrims

[CharlesDavenport]

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two major health scares at U.S. airports involving inbound flights are related to pilgrims returning from the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which ended in late August, U.S. health officials said on Friday.

On Wednesday, U.S. health officials sent an emergency response team with mobile diagnostic equipment to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after they were told that more than 100 passengers aboard an Emirates airlines flight from Dubai were experiencing flu-like symptoms.

Dr. Martin Cetron, director for the division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told Reuters in a telephone interview that health officials evaluated nearly 549 passengers at the airport, and sent a total of 11 people to a local hospital for more testing.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...to-mecca-pilgrims-u-s-officials-idUSKCN1LN2RB

So two planes coming into the U.S. were infected with a fast acting contagious something by Muslims coming from Mecca. Does this feel at all dry-runny to anyone else? Testing the response...finding the infection rate.

 

[DBS1970]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...to-mecca-pilgrims-u-s-officials-idUSKCN1LN2RB

So two planes coming into the U.S. were infected with a fast acting contagious something by Muslims coming from Mecca. Does this feel at all dry-runny to anyone else? Testing the response...finding the infection rate.

Yep.

 

[xjx]

It's a test run. It worked. More to come.

 

[MTC]

Yikes!
Sounds like a attack

 

[Steelworth]

Read the article thoroughly. While I wouldn't put it past these *****, just sounds like Influenza-A mostly. There's no fast-acting contagion found anywhere in the article and 1 of the flights from Europe didn't even travel to Mecca, but still had passengers sick (with the flu). The flu season starts in fall. While on the surface suspicious, not sure this is anything to worry about.

 

[CharlesDavenport]

Getting a bunch of people sick and exhibiting symptoms in the course of an airplane flight is fast acting in my book.

 

[Tibs]

Read the article thoroughly. While I wouldn't put it past these *****, just sounds like Influenza-A mostly. There's no fast-acting contagion found anywhere in the article and 1 of the flights from Europe didn't even travel to Mecca, but still had passengers sick (with the flu). The flu season starts in fall. While on the surface suspicious, not sure this is anything to worry about.

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