Flight bound for DTW rerouted after possible Ebola exposure discovered
Posted by detroitcity@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 34 comments
Sounds like not necessarily an exposure but a customs issue.
Separate-Rhubarb7950@reddit
Wait, so everyone that was on a long flight with that passenger were still allowed to get off in Detroit? Seems like the whole plane should have been held and checked by a health department.
time-lord@reddit
I read it as they diverted from Detroit to Montreal Canada. So, uh, we just decided to give Canada our Ebola?
DFA_Wildcat@reddit
It's ok, it was just Quebec. đŸ˜† Joking aside what do you do with a jet that crosses the pond that you deny airspace entry/landing? They don't have enough fuel to go back, they have to land somewhere to at least refuel. I guess they could have left them on the tarmac, topped up the tanks, cleaned the windscreen and sent them back to France. That would be an expensive lesson!
Intelligent-Sun-7973@reddit
What makes it "our" ebola? Air France should not have let the person board. They are not an American and it is not an american air line.
Lyloron@reddit
Yup, they definitely shouldn’t have allowed that person on board. However, it also strikes me as irresponsible to deny a flight to land in the US that cannot possibly return to Paris. Effectively we are saying let’s make it Canada’s problem instead.
Mustangfast85@reddit
They should’ve refueled the plane and sent it right back to CDG
pelicanIncident@reddit
Canada is the group project member who keeps getting assigned the weird slide.
jeckles@reddit
Sorry
BurtHurtmanHurtz@reddit
Sooooooooorie
seth928@reddit
Eh
detroitcity@reddit (OP)
Conjecturing that there wasn't truly a potential exposure but that the Democratic Republic of Congo is currently on a no fly list to USA because of ebola so they made him get off
BurtHurtmanHurtz@reddit
As long as the passenger didn’t throw up on anyone or die on the plane and then touch people, we are fine
Great_Specialist_267@reddit
Ebola is spread by bodily fluids and makes you bleed to death…
Jaggedmallard26@reddit
By the time you are bleeding to death you are in no state to fly.
Great_Specialist_267@reddit
People are infectious days before they realise it… The survival rate, even in European ICU’s, is poor.
BurtHurtmanHurtz@reddit
No shit. How do you get it then from someone on plane?
slightlyhandiquacked@reddit
It’s about the exposed person. Not the entire plane. But you can’t divert a single passenger via airdrop, so everyone has to divert.
BurtHurtmanHurtz@reddit
How does anyone on a plane get sick from a living passenger with Ebola?
Azurehue22@reddit
Can I please fucking get off this timeline???
BlueDotty@reddit
Lucky Ebola is not airborne
Allaplgy@reddit
Well it was, but they rerouted it and it landed.
BlueDotty@reddit
I see what you did there, and you can have your upvote
delinquentfatcat@reddit
There is a World Cup football game between Portugal and DR Congo in four weeks' time in Houston TX. Everyone must be counting on this to stay true.
BlueDotty@reddit
Right, that could be interesting...
Sounds like the opening of an apocalypse movie...
Great_Specialist_267@reddit
No, it’s spread by physical contact…
mysecondaccountanon@reddit
yet
Only takes a nice and unwanted mutation for things to start going ways we don’t want things to go
classyhornythrowaway@reddit
yeah but it could be Unlucky Ebola
So_HauserAspen@reddit
Isn't airborne yet
Mk5onair@reddit
It took a car instead of the plane
KeyCold7216@reddit
Article is click bait. The passenger came from a region of Africa where travelers are temporarily banned from entering the US. The passenger should not have been allowed to board. The US turned them away, and they were diverted to Canada, which does not currently have a ban in place. The passenger does not have symptoms, and nothing in the article says anything about the passenger being exposed to Ebola.
It just a customs issue that the media blew out of proportion.
9-1-Holyshit@reddit
Boy am I glad I live in a country with a functioning medical and healthcare system, and a health department that’s focused on preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
Blurockcreek@reddit
And they thought Hantavirus was scary.
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