Did this dead passenger have EBOLA or not?

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Alarm after vomiting passenger dies on flight from Nigeria to JFK

By Philip Messing and Laura Italiano

October 16, 2014 | 7:36pm

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A plane from Nigeria landed at JFK Airport Thursday with a male passenger aboard who had died during the flight after a fit of vomiting — and CDC officials conducted a “cursory” exam before announcing there was no Ebola and turning the corpse over to Port Authority cops to remove, Rep. Peter King said on Thursday.

The congressman was so alarmed by the incident — and by what he and employees see as troubling Ebola vulnerabilities at JFK — that he fired off a letter to the federal Department of Homeland Security demanding more training and tougher protocols for handling possible cases there.

The unnamed, 63-year-old passenger had boarded an Arik Air plane out of Lagos, Nigeria, on Wednesday night, a federal law enforcement source said.

During the flight, the man had been vomiting in his seat, the source said. Some time before the plane landed, he passed away. Flight crew contacted the CDC, federal customs officials and Port Authority police, who all boarded the plane at around 6 a.m. as about 145 worried passengers remained on board, the source said.

“The door [to the terminal] was left open, which a lot of the first responders found alarming,” said the source.

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Rep. King called the protocol followed after the passenger died “alarming.”Photo: Getty Images

“My understanding was that the passenger was vomiting in the seat,” King (R-LI) said.

“The CDC went on the plane, examined the dead body and said the person did not have Ebola,” King said.

“It was what I was told a cursory examination. The Port Authority cops and personnel from Customs and Border Protection were there, and they were told there was no danger because the person did not have Ebola,” King said.

“But their concern was, how could you tell so quickly? And what adds to the concern is how wrong the CDC has been over the past few weeks.”

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“The CDC went on the plane, examined the dead body and said the person did not have Ebola,” King said."

There you have it. A 10 minute check to verify the dead passenger does NOT have EBOLA and everybody is good to go.

That's it? No blood test necessary? No stool samples? Who was the unfortunate creature sitting next to the corpse? No taking names of the passenger's? No checking of OTHER passengers temps and health conditions?

Disgusting! The CDC has learned nothing in the last 3 weeks of the EBOLA nightmare.