Daily Mail reports said the man boarded the JFK-bound flight filled with about 145 passengers on board on the night of Wednesday, October 16, 2014, but died before arriving New York.
Flight attendants
called the CDC, Port Authority and customs officials, who then boarded
the plane in protective gear as it touched down, forcing 145 worried
passengers to remain on board.
The authorities then conducted tests on
the body and it was only a short evaluation that suggested he did not
have the deadly virus, prompting concerns there are still
‘vulnerabilities’ at airports.
Meanwhile, the duration of the test conducted on the corpse didn’t go
down well with a lot of people who described it as “very brief”
pointing out that the test to detect the deadly disease should take
longer than the few minutes it took the officials.Among them was a Republican congressman, Peter King who wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security in that regard.
Nigeria recorded the Ebola Virus Diseases
in July, 2014, after Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer brought the
disease to Lagos on July 20, 2014. He died on July 25, 2014 in a Lagos
hospital, not before infecting staff of the hospital and those of ECOWAS
who received him at the airport. Seven Nigerian died of the disease
which was swiftly contained by quick action by the Nigerian government.
The World Health Organization is set to declare the country Ebola-free by Monday, October 20, 2014 if no fresh case is recorded.
The recent outbreak of the Ebola disease
is seen as the most deadly as it had killed 4,493 people so far
according to figures released by the World Health Organization on
Wednesday, October 16, 2014.
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