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    Plane quarantined at Kennedy Airport amid reports of ill passengers

    Plane quarantined at Kennedy Airport amid reports of 100 ill passengers.
    by Helen Branswell Sep 05, 2018 2 minutes
    A passenger gets her temperature taken as she leaves an Emirates airplane at New York's Kennedy Airport.

    An Emirates Airline flight was held in quarantine for a period Wednesday at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport after a large number of passengers and crew members reported feeling ill during the flight.

    Estimates of how many people were sick varied throughout the day, with an initial count of 106 people, New York City’s Acting Health Commissioner

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