So now Ebola is coming from Nigeria? A man vomiting in his seat on Arik Air flight from Lagos, Nigeria to JFK Airport in New York died shortly before the plane landed in New York. THE CDC went on the flight on determined within minutes the man did not have Ebola. But how does the CDC know this so quickly? Doesn’t the body have to undergo a series of tests, just to rule out Ebola like the various other false alarms have? The New York Post story that reported this doesn’t mention anything about the plane going through a cleaning or examination. Of course, how many Americans actually fly Arik Air? I’ve never even heard about them before tonight.
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A plane from Nigeria landed at JFK Airport Thursday with a male passenger aboard who had died during the flight after a fit of vomiting — and CDC officials conducted a “cursory” exam before announcing there was no Ebola and turning the corpse over to Port Authority cops to remove, Rep. Peter King said on Thursday.
The congressman was so alarmed by the incident — and by what he and employees see as troubling Ebola vulnerabilities at JFK — that he fired off a letter to the federal Department of Homeland Security demanding more training and tougher protocols for handling possible cases there.
The unnamed, 63-year-old passenger had boarded an Arik Air plane out of Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday night, a federal law enforcement source said.