{"id":13965,"date":"2018-09-05T19:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13965"},"modified":"2018-09-05T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:23:33","slug":"emirates-flight-quarantined-in-new-york-after-passengers-fall-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13965","title":{"rendered":"Emirates flight quarantined in New York after passengers fall ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"89.8607198748\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">An Emirates airliner carrying more than 500 passengers was quarantined on a New York City runway after reports of a large number of people falling ill on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least 19 people on board the flight from Dubai were confirmed ill when the aircraft landed at John F Kennedy International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">About 100 people complained of feeling sick on the flight from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/regions\/middleeast.html\">Middle East<\/a>, with symptoms including coughing and fever, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>CDC health officers worked with other agencies to evaluate passengers, including taking temperatures and making arrangements for transport to hospitals, spokesman Benjamin Haynes said.<\/p>\n<p>Ten people were taken to hospitals while the other nine declined treatment, said Raul Contreras, a spokesman for the New York City mayor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Diala Makki was on the aircraft when she learned from flight crew that a number of people had become sick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Emirates cabin crew were super-helpful, they were not in panic mode, which was amazing,&#8221; said Makki.<\/p>\n<p>Emirates Airline is wholly owned by the Investment Corporation of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-arab-emirates.html\">Dubai<\/a>, which is controlled by Dubai&#8217;s government. It is the largest airline in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC did not immediately respond to Al Jazeera&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE: <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Emirates airliner carrying more than 500 passengers was quarantined on a New York City runway after reports of a large number of people falling ill on Wednesday. At least 19 people on board the flight from Dubai were confirmed ill when the aircraft landed at John F Kennedy International Airport. About 100 people complained&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}