A Madrid airport activated emergency measures Thursday after a
passenger arriving on an Air France flight was suspected of having
Ebola.
The passenger on Air France 1300 from Lagos,
Nigeria, had started shivering with a fever during the flight which
landed at Barajas International Airport in the Spanish capital.
Air France said the other passengers disembarked from the plane, which
was flying via Paris. The plane will now be disinfected and the return
flight has been cancelled.
Spain’s health ministry confirmed
that an Ebola emergency protocol was set in motion but declined to give
details. There had been at least 160 people on board the flight which
left Charles de Gaulle in Paris at 9.35 am and arrived at 11.30 am.
An
Air France spokesperson said the passenger had been isolated “for
medical checks”, but other sources at the airline suggested that he did
not have Ebola.
France yesterday became the fourth country
after Britain, the United States and Canada to introduce screening for
the virus at its main international airports. It came as the United
Nations warned that Ebola was outpacing efforts to combat the epidemic.
Credit: Zacheaus Somorin
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