Plane lands in NY with 10 ill passengers

“Passengers who are not ill will be allowed to continue with their travel plans, and if necessary will be followed up with by health officials”, the CDC said in a statement.

Separately, health officials in Houston said they were looking into a case of a person with measles possibly exposing others to the virus during a flight connection at that city’s Hobby Airport on Aug 21 and 22.

The cause of the reported illness is not yet known, but the plane was diverted to a holding area, where it was met by emergency response vehicles including officials from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Port Authority of NY and New Jersey.

Twelve passengers on global flights that landed at Philadelphia worldwide Airport on Thursday are showing flu-like symptoms, airport officials said.

Emirates Flight 203 from Dubai was headed to NY when at least 100 of its 500 passengers reported feeling ill.

Passengers leave an Emirates airplane at New York’s Kennedy Airport amid reports of ill passengers aboard a flight from Dubai. Nine passengers underwent additional medical screening on site before being released, it added.

Health officials said after the scare in NY on Wednesday, they are taking “an abundance of caution” in Philadelphia.

The Emirates flight arriving at 9:10 a.m. Wednesday was swarmed by police vehicles and ambulances and immediately quarantined for an assessment by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The reason why these passengers and crew fell ill, whether food poisoning or flu, has not been released.

Emirates announced that the return flight to Dubai, EK204, would be delayed by approximately three hours.

“Everyone else was clear”, he said in an interview. “They dealt with it really well”.

News broke on Wednesday that an Emirates flight was quarantined at JFK Airport, and it turns out Vanilla Ice was among those onboard.

The rapper later told The Blast, “I didn’t think it was that big of a deal”.