A traveler on a United Airlines flight from Brussels to Newark, N.J. is being tested for Ebola after exhibiting a high fever and vomiting on the flight, reports NorthJersey.com.
Port Authority police boarded the plane in hazmat suits after it in landed at Newark Liberty International Airport yesterday afternoon. The passenger, a woman who worked with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone and was traveling from the Ebola-stricken nation, was escorted off the plane and brought to Hackensack University Medical Center, where she is currently being treated.
According to NorthJersey.com, an official from the hospital said the sick passenger did not have a fever by the time she was transported to Hackensack University Medical Center, but is being treated as an Ebola patient "in an abundance of caution."
Other passengers on board were asked to fill out forms in the case officials needed to contact them, a passenger from the flight reported in a Tweet below.
United passengers on Brussels to Newark flt fill out health forms after 5 health officials board plane. pic.twitter.com/S4cdJMemDX
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