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26th Mar 2007, 23:08
Plane carrying 85 sick passengers arrives in Newark from Hong Kong
POSTED: 4:28 p.m. EDT, March 26, 2007
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.
POSTED: 4:28 p.m. EDT, March 26, 2007
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.