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These flights have been quarantined and evaluated over sick passengers | Deseret News (article du 9/09/2018)
▻https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900030842/these-flights-have-been-quarantined-and-evaluated-over-sick-passengers.

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Several flights across the country have been quarantined and evaluated over the past few days after some passengers showed signs of sickness.

On Wednesday, a flight from Dubai to John F. Kennedy Airport was quarantined after at least 19 passengers suffered from a confirmed case of the flu, according to ABC News.

The CDC quarantined the Emirates aircraft, which held 520 passengers. The CDC evaluated 100 passengers, who said they suffered from coughs, headaches, sore throats and fevers, ABC News reported.

At least 10 people were hospitalized as a “precaution.” The rest were cleared.

“Given the symptoms that we are seeing in the patients and given the history that they present, it looks like this is probably influenza,” acting New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said. “But again, until we have our final results late tonight we won’t be able to give a final determination on what the underlying cause is of this illness.”

Similarly, Southwest Airlines passengers on four flights between Dallas, Houston and Harlingen, Texas, may have been exposed to #measles, the airline company told KTRK-TV.

The airline said it contacted customers who traveled on the plane two weeks ago to see if anyone onboard had the highly contagious virus.

The Houston Health Department is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to speak with the passengers.

The department told KTRK that the passenger who had the virus did not visit the airport after their flight. They stayed in a waiting room for an hour after the flight.

And, as The Verg_e reported, two more international flights were evaluated after passengers were caught coughing and showing signs of sickness.

Both flights were from American Airlines, flying from Munich and Paris to Philadelphia International airport. About 12 people on each flight felt sick, according to a statement from the airport.

The airport said “_all passengers on the two flights — totaling about 250 plus crew — were held for a medical review and the CDC was notified.”

Allen Parmet, an aerospace medicine expert, told The Verge, “It’s actually pretty common to have somebody coughing in a plane.”

“If it turns out to be the flu, this could be an early forecast of the flu season ahead. And the CDC has some tips for keeping the virus from spreading: get vaccinated, and stay home when you’re sick, if you can,” according to The Verge.

#grippe #flu #influenza
#rougeole

les consignes du CDC :
#se_faire_vacciner
#rester_chez_soi
#ne_pas_tousser_dans_l'avion (bon, ça c’est de moi…)

C’est un coup des musulmans du pèlerinage #Hajj …

Health Scares At Two U.S. Airports Linked To Pilgrims Arriving From Muslim Hajj In Mecca
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U.S. health officials revealed on Friday that major health scares at two U.S. airports involving inbound flights are tied to pilgrims returning from Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims take at least once in their lifetime, and which ended in late August.

Health officials on Wednesday sent an emergency response team to the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after more than 100 Emirates passengers from Dubai showed flu-like symptoms.

In an interview with Reuters, Martin Cetron, director for the division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that 11 of the nearly 549 passengers evaluated at the airport were sent to a local hospital for further testing.

Ten were tested for respiratory pathogen in an attempt to rule out serious infections that may pose health threats to the public.

“Our most critical issue was to rule several respiratory illnesses of urgent public health significance,” Cetron said.

Two tested positive for a virulent type of the influenza A virus. One of the two was found gravely ill with pneumonia and also infected with another respiratory virus. Another passenger was positive for the cold virus.

Seven crew members of the flight who were not at the pilgrimage tested negative for respiratory infections that could be of public health concern.
 
Another health scare happened at the Philadelphia International Airport the next day. Medical teams had to screen passengers who boarded two American Airlines flights from Europe when 12 passengers showed flu-like symptoms. One of the sick passengers visited Mecca for the Muslim pilgrimage.

Of the 11 passengers taken to the hospital for evaluation, 10 had respiratory symptoms and one exhibited signs of food poisoning. The 10 patients were also tested for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, but none was positive. MERS is a highly contagious viral respiratory illness first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012.

The incident prompted a medical review of 250 passengers from the two flights. Authorities said that this was done as a precautionary measure.

“While airport operations were not affected, out of an abundance of caution, officials performed medical evaluations and assessments,” the Philadelphia International Airport said on Twitter.

CDC spokesman Benjamin Haynes said that CDC and public health officers worked with emergency medical service personnel and officials from the Customs and Border Protection to evaluate the sick passengers.

Twelve were found to have coughs and sore throats, and one tested positive for flu. The CDC said that this is not unusual since flu is a year-round virus.

#MERS-CoV (ça faisait longtemps, tiens !)