Emirates airline: Flu suspected after sickness on Dubai flight

Passenger taken by ambulance to hospital on 5 September 2018 Image copyright EPA Symbol caption Three passengers and seven workforce members have been taken to health facility, Emirates said

Health officers in Big Apple are looking ahead to the outcome of exams after 10 passengers on an Emirates flight from Dubai have been taken to clinic.

Acting well being commissioner Dr Oxiris Barbot said their signs – fever, coughing and vomiting – prompt flu.

Flight 203 used to be quarantined at JFK airport on Wednesday after greater than ONE HUNDRED passengers and staff complained of feeling in poor health during the flight.

All the ones on board had been screened by way of health officials on arrival.

3 passengers and seven group members have been assessed as desiring care in sanatorium.

Image Copyright @vanillaice @vanillaice Image copyright Reuters Symbol caption Passengers have been screened as they disembarked

A spokesman for Big Apple Mayor Invoice de Blasio stated in advance that a few of the passengers had at first come from the Saudi city of Mecca, which was currently experiencing a flu outbreak, and that the passengers’ symptoms have been “pointing to the flu”.

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