{"id":2572,"date":"2014-10-10T11:39:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2014-10-10T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T11:39:54","slug":"i-have-ebolaplane-passengers-joke-backfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I have Ebola!&#8217;:Plane passenger&#8217;s joke backfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plane passenger sparked panic after shouting \u2018I have Ebola!\u2019 on a flight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ebola1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2573\" alt=\"ebola1\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ebola1-300x179.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ebola1-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ebola1.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man from North America was travelling\u00a0from Philadelphia, US, to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, when he made the remark.<\/p>\n<p>Local media\u00a0reports that the man yelled out \u2018I have Ebola!\u2019, but airport officials told\u00a0FOX\u00a0he had said \u2018I\u2019ve just been to Africa!\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>When US Airways flight 845 landed on the Caribbean island it was quickly boarded by emergency personnel wearing blue hazmat suits&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He was escorted off the plane and medics swiftly ruled out\u00a0a fever \u2013 a symptom of Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers filmed the unfolding drama and uploaded it on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/naijamusicmovement.blogspot.com\">http:\/\/naijamusicmovement.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane passenger sparked panic after shouting \u2018I have Ebola!\u2019 on a flight. The unidentified man from North America was travelling\u00a0from Philadelphia, US, to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, when he made the remark. Local media\u00a0reports that the man yelled out \u2018I have Ebola!\u2019, but airport officials told\u00a0FOX\u00a0he had said \u2018I\u2019ve just been to Africa!\u2019. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ebola1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-Fu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}