Is this worse than snakes on a plane?

The last paragraph was special for me. 85 patients arriving en masse would overwhelm most emergency departments, but at least the airport had one EMS team to meet the plane.

Plane carrying 85 sick passengers arrives in Newark from Hong Kong

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A plane traveling from Hong Kong carrying passengers complaining of flu-like symptoms arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport on Monday afternoon, according to a spokesman for the University Hospital at Newark.

"It is believed that the ill passengers were part of a group of more than 80 tourists who sailed together on a river cruise in Asia," Continental Airlines spokesman David Messing told CNN.

The group's final travel destination was Montreal, Canada, according to Continental.

They were among 272 passengers on the plane, it said.

The crew of Continental Flight 98 notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after take-off from Hong Kong when "several passengers appeared ill," according to Continental. A representative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met the plane upon its arrival at Newark, it said.

Hospital spokesman Rogers Ramsey said an EMS team was on site but would not say whether the passengers were being treated aboard the plane.

 

From someone deathly afraid of snakes, no this is not worse. Maybe worse than having to watch the movie, maybe, but not worse than actually having to put up with poisonous snakes on a plane.

 

just hurry and refuel without letting anyone off the plane, send them on their way to Canada and let them worry about SARS.

Those ~190 co-passengers have got to be a little paranoid right now.

 

SUE!

 

Can you say Germ Warfare?

 

Can you say Confucius' revenge?

 

Can you say, "Pass me a handiwipe?"

 

That's odd. Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home.

 

They ate the fish!

 

We got muthafucking flu-like symptoms on a plane!!!!

Not quite the same ring.

 

That's odd. Jim never vomits at home.

 

Well slap my ass and call me boots.