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Monkeypox fears cause quarantine in Chicago
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Infectious disease scare grounds plane
- Duration 2:11
- Date Apr 27, 2012
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EC officials.
Come out of the plane wearing gloves and surgical -- see that's not a very confidence inspiring feel and they came onto the plane and examine the passengers.
They looked at this person who was supposedly infected with monkey pox was the concern.
Here in our some of those passengers who were quarantined or podcasts initially everyone was just covering their -- just -- -- children -- Meaning something we're gonna teeny tiny plane you know all right next to each other and they -- his coffee.
No more from them animals.
And now has the latest this morning apparently says it was all a misunderstanding what happened here the well we're told once the pilot an -- of public health officials were onboard the plane.
Passengers began panicky and pulling their shirts over their faces but fortunately.
It was a false alarm this all happened at Chicago's midway airport on Thursday when delta flight 3163.
From Detroit landed on the runway.
Medical experts took charge over concerns a Minnesota woman had monkey pox.
According to reports fifty year old -- Seaver said -- -- you've gone to finalizing the adoption process for two children.
One of the kids had been taken to the hospital there that was after breaking out and simple like -- receivers herself suffered from an -- related rash.
The confusion started when sabres called her brother during a layover in Detroit to explain everything.
Rather -- the stories mixed up and called a local hospital seeking advice on how to treat this ailment.
The hospital that alerted authorities tension began building among passengers as paramedics examined -- Taking pictures of her mysterious rash to be sent to federal health officials.
-- started you know -- gonna look and feel like you know trying to find out what is in.
-- they started saying you know really Ebola Virus didn't smallpox.
They said it was something a bug bites but he wanted to just make sure that it was completely statements leaves.
Passengers remained on board the quarantine flight for about three hours the plane was not connected to the gate.
But sat on the tarmac operations at the rest of the airport continued as usual now so the CDC says what about the woman's condition now and a policy see clear receivers about 6 o'clock last night after determining her -- was likely indeed.
From that accident and in the end okay so the all clear has been given we move forward thank you and I more.
