{"id":15503,"date":"2014-08-27T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T08:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=15503"},"modified":"2014-08-27T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T11:44:34","slug":"scotts-airline-passangers-in-major-ebola-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=15503","title":{"rendered":"Scotts airline passengers in major Ebola scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers on a British Airways flight from London were kept on the aircraft for over two hours after a young African girl complained of feeling unwell on the flight.<\/p>\n<p>Medics in chemical suits boarded the plane while anxious passengers watched on in horror.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers on a British Airways flight from London were kept on the aircraft for over two hours after a 10-year-old girl, believed to be of Nigerian descent, was &#8220;violently sick&#8221; onboard the BA1314 service.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental Health and trained infectious diseases medics immediately quarantined the aircraft until the sick passenger could be safely removed. It&#8217;s understood the girl travelled from infected regions in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>One man, whose pregnant daughter was on the flight, said: &#8220;We tried to get information but nobody was returning our calls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The passengers weren&#8217;t being told anything other than the girl was sick and quarantine measures were put in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the woman has now been transferred to the infectious diseases unit at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where further tests will be carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Daily Record<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline passengers in Scotland were at the centre of an Ebola scare after their plane was quarantined at Aberdeen airport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[9821,9820,9128,12253],"class_list":["post-15503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-aberdeen","tag-british-airways","tag-ebola","tag-europe"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15525,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions\/15525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}