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Sam Sweeney (ABC)
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BREAKING: An Emirates A380 in quarantine at JFK Airport right now awaiting CDC officials after about 100 passengers became ill with fevers over 100 degrees and coughing. Flight 203 had just arrived from Dubai.
UPDATE: Emirates Airlines is saying only 10 people are ill, but there are multiple individuals being taken away in ambulances, including all of the crew.
maryellen99
(3,791 posts)I hope the passengers recover.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Infection?
Seems a rapid onset of 100 cases with fever.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)With layover(s) I think 18 hours travel from there isn't uncommon ...
But yeah, that don't seem normal ... maybe, you know, 10 people sitting next to someone who was sick and sneezing but 100 is quite a spread in not that long of time.
MiniMe
(21,731 posts)And the air is constantly recycled. I got sick recently on a flight and it certainly wasn't a flight as long as from Dubai. I'm glad they caught it while the people are still on the plane.
I hadn't thought of airplanes as incubators, but that would explain why 100 people got ill in such a short period of time. Very disturbing.
I really feel for the passengers. Just imagine being very ill and stuck on a crowded plane, where you can't even lie down on a bed. Not to mention sharing a tiny bathroom with all those people. I'm getting claustrophobic and sweaty just thinking about it.
MiniMe
(21,731 posts)Hopefully it is one of those planes that have the things where you can lay down. I think Emerites (not sure how you spell it) is one of the planes that they advertise that
PatSeg
(47,833 posts)when I'm sick and don't think I'd find it on a crowded plane. Hopefully, they will be able to lie down and have access to lots of fluids. Can you imagine being a doctor or a nurse trying to treat all those people in a cramped airplane?
Pacifist Patriot
(24,655 posts)Either way, I agree with you. That has got to be utter misery!
PatSeg
(47,833 posts)That's quite a difference, but as you say still "utter misery".
MiniMe
(21,731 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Airliners obtain clean, compressed air from the engines and use this for air conditioning, ventilation, and pressurization. The air is removed from the front of the engine, right after it is sucked in from the outside, so it doesn't contain any exhaust gases or other toxic stuff. Even so, it is still heavily filtered before it goes into the cabin.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,655 posts)I can't remember whether it was coming or going, but one direction or the other took them over 24 hours.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)Zoonart
(11,946 posts)Terror attack? Pathogen?
certainot
(9,090 posts)the ebola event in 2014? was turned into an election factor as limbaugh and spawn blamed immigrants and obama, saying he actually wanted it to consolidate power
and because the left ignores those stations they can turn anything like this into a an authoritarian dream - spread fear with unchallenged lying and exaggeration, blame immigrants and democrats, and call for military action and a police state
but maybe it's just sam & ella
Zoonart
(11,946 posts)Sam and Ella fits. Fits with fever too.
malaise
(269,545 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
Wounded Bear
(58,833 posts)in an enclosed space with dozens of people confined.
Sure, it sounds suspicious, but I'll wait for the CDC report before I speculate.
malaise
(269,545 posts)but 100 people picking up a virus in 14 hours must raise questions.
kcr
(15,333 posts)for flight attendants to notice something was wrong.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,655 posts)Bacterial infections can incubate in less than an hour!
woodsprite
(11,949 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,655 posts)Ripped through our family (me, our three kids, and his parents) with a vengeance! While on vacation in Key West. Hell is right!
Nay
(12,051 posts)doesn't come with fever and coughing, so it's probably not that. And just plain viruses and bacteria? Sure, they get passed around in a plane, but the rapid onset indicates a rather virulent strain of whatever it is just from the speed. Even if all those passengers and crew had been together for the whole 14 - 24 hours of the flights from the ME (which they weren't - crew aren't allowed to fly that long and passengers don't move in a bloc from one plane to another -- they have different destinations and boarding places).
Taking all that into account, I can see why the CDC went screaming over there. Virulence, speed of infection, speed of onset of symptoms -- it's all hair-raising. You don't want these people to be walking around JFK.
malaise
(269,545 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,162 posts)government had been completely destroyed by now if for no other reason than morale.
Good to know it isnt entirely destroyed yet.
femmedem
(8,218 posts)The Atlantic has run a few good articles on it recently.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/02/cdc-funding-pandemics/552224/
and https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-the-next-plague-hits/561734/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,162 posts)"but it could be worse, a woman who once gave one speech could be in charge"
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)the incubation stage. Sounds like it spreads quickly via air circulating. If only one was sick 18 hours ago, then the incubation period seems pretty quick if the next nine (or 99) people are already in the prodomal stage. We don't even know if they have reached the most acute stage of whatever disease this is.
Glad they called the CDC.
and yes - a good call to the CDC
Texin
(2,600 posts)There are anecdotes of people actually getting up in the morning with no symptoms whatsoever - not a fever, general malaise or cough - and they were actually dropping dead by noon, their bodies overwhelmed by the virus, which caused edema of the lungs and multiple organ failure.
The actual flu can have rapid onset of symptoms as well. I remember when I was in college and got up and went to class at around 8 a.m. feeling fine, and during my last class of the day around 11:00 that morning I had a pounding headache, fever, chills, body ache, and felt so tired and weak I wondered how I was going to get from class to the car to go home. I collapsed on the bed when I got home and couldn't hardly move enough to get to the bathroom for about 36 hours, and I was sick for nearly eight days thereafter, but with diminishing symptoms, just exhaustion from fighting the virus.
Hajj ended August 24. If the group of 10 were traveling together, then "quickly" is as many weeks as they have been together.
unblock
(52,582 posts)not a doctor, but what illnesses could spread so quickly and show fever so quickly?
i suspect meningitis is among them, not sure, and not sure what others illnesses are possible here.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)If these people start dying I'm going to freak the F*** right out ...
Eliot Rosewater
(31,162 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)We are well met
populistdriven
(5,644 posts)dameatball
(7,411 posts)maryellen99
(3,791 posts)With this administration,they have no clue how to control anything much less a pandemic.
dameatball
(7,411 posts)malaise
(269,545 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)brooklynite
(95,185 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)from 100 during one plane flight. Guess I won't dash down to the basement and try to find out where that box of N95 particulate masks is hiding after all. It's been missing since the last big flu epidemic that didn't happen.
Texin
(2,600 posts)Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Emirates Airlines is saying only 10 people are ill, but there are multiple individuals being taken away in ambulances, including all of the crew.
Nay
(12,051 posts)And thank the gods for that.
Mad-in-Mo
(229 posts)solve this one? You know he will take credit for some part of this.
Aristus
(66,587 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)They've likely all been to the same place and the 10 were travelling as a group.
Aristus
(66,587 posts)Thanks!
hedda_foil
(16,380 posts)And they can get sicker during a 20 hour plane trip. A hundred people don't. A few people can get sick in flight. Many passengers can catch something from a sick fellow passenger. But most illnesses have an incubation period of at least a couple of days. 100 passengers suddenly springing fevers during a flight sounds like they have caught something while they were all together as in while on that plane, which would seem to mean a highly contagious illness with a very short incubation time.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,655 posts)I'm just trying to think positive that it's nothing too frightening.
marybourg
(12,656 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Most likely the sick folks are returning from Hajj as a group.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Incubators.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,138 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,655 posts)No fun!
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)I am not wild about flying, but traveling is in my blood.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)atreides1
(16,135 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,655 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Hell, dang 12 Monkeys outbreak started at the airport in the movie ...
ToxMarz
(2,170 posts)they're not sending their best!
bunny planet
(10,875 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,655 posts)SDJay
(1,089 posts)this doesn't happen more often. I travel around the world a lot and can't even remember how many obviously ill people with whom I've shared planes and gates. As said, you're climbing into a small metal tube with an enclosed atmosphere, so anything airborne is literally blowing all over you for an extended period of time on longer flights.
bucolic_frolic
(43,626 posts)or some other illness encountered in-flight.
Poor people ... but we still have a CDC!! How did that manage to escape Trump's Social Darwinism?
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)It was some health-related organization and I'm pretty sure it was the CDC.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)It was originally funded after the hysteria in the US in regards to the Ebola outbreak.
Countries where the CDC planned to scale back included some of the worlds hot spots for emerging infectious disease, (China, Pakistan, Haiti, Rwanda, Congo, etc).
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I remember thinking at the time that we better not have an outbreak of some serious disease while Trump was POTUS.
irisblue
(33,083 posts)Grasswire2
(13,579 posts)Just askin'.....
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)The managers improved their profit margins by *failing to clean the air filters*. Aircraft are "big pass-around family-sized buckets of bacteria". Nature only knows how many types of illnesses these passengers are experiencing. Fuel 'em up and send 'em back? No! Cheetolini has property in Abu Dhabi so now their sick plane is our problem.
Think how easy it is to do germ warfare - just infect some passengers going to the target and let them board their flight.
And my friends wonder why I'm staying at home more and more these days...
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Block immigrants based on vague health scares?
SOmeone needs to follow those abulances. They are probably going to detention centers.
MontanaMama
(23,372 posts)The truth may be somewhere in between which is why the CDC is involved. Regardless, everyone on board has been exposed and incubation for them has begun. I really hope this turns out to be something minor.
Renew Deal
(81,926 posts)orleans
(34,130 posts)"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."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/health/new-york-plane-jfk-passengers-ill/index.html
marybourg
(12,656 posts)sent out into the community? Good thinking!
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)marybourg
(12,656 posts)A later article confirmed that the actually were.
Nanjeanne
(5,012 posts)which means his immune system is compromised! We chose Emirates because their business class product in a 380is great and flight is direct.
This is scary.
sandensea
(21,806 posts)Quarantine II
Good plot, well-cast, nothing over the top. Not for anyone with a heart condition though.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)MissB
(15,814 posts)essme
(1,207 posts)This? Why I could make a brooch, a hat, a pterodactyl......
Tucker08087
(621 posts)It had sudden onset and all of those symptoms. Its extremely contagious and comes from moist air ducts, like an air conditioning duct system. We are often exposed, but our natural immunities fight it. Im not diagnosing, just saying its possible. Luckily, it is treatable with antibiotics if thats what it is and it is caught quickly.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)They are going to have suffer under our horrible healthcare system.
Probably the worst place in the world for these folks to get sick.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Link to tweet
Vanilla Ice
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@vanillaice
So I just landed in New York coming back from Dubai and now Im stuck on the runway with like 1000 police, ambulances, fire trucks, this is crazy.
Recursion
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