11 Passengers Hospitalized On a Flight from Dubai Due To Outbreak of Flu

Eleven individuals on an Emirates flight were admitted to a hospital on Wednesday in New York City due to flu-like indications after travelers and team grumbled of feeling unwell amid a 14-hour trip from the Middle East, authorities confirmed. Acting health commissioner of New York City, Dr. Oxiris Barbot explained that Tests on respiratory samples of the patients still can't seem to affirm the illness; however their complaints and signs - cough, vomiting and fever - exhibit influenza. Some of the travelers as of late had gone to the yearly Haj pilgrimage to the Muslim sacred city of Mecca situated on the Arabian Peninsula, a district where the influenza infection was flowing, and could have gotten the disease from there. It was conceivable the infection was transmitted among travelers amid the long flight. All the passenger who got hospitalized were in stable condition and none of them were in need of "extreme" medical consideration.

Barbot further stated that the incubation period of the flu - the interim between vulnerability to the infection and development of signs - normally is one to seven days, and individuals who are tainted can be infectious before hinting at illness. Influenza is transmitted through the respiratory emissions that are spread by sneezing or coughing. These are then breathed in by others or contracted from surfaces on an individual’s hands and rubbed into the nose, mouth or eyes. The Emirates airliner, That carried a number of 521 travelers, arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport early in the day and was encompassed by many emergency vehicles as fearful travelers held up to be assessed by health authorities. The mayor’s office and the airline confirmed 19 individuals were affirmed sick. Three travelers and seven team members went to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, and nine travelers therapeutically assessed at the scene were discharged a while later, said Dubai-based Emirates.