Passengers with flu-like symptoms on AC TLV-YYZ flight quarantined

[HighFlyer]

Health Scare At Pearson Airport
Tuesday January 8, 2008
CityNews.ca Staff

Multiple passengers on a flight from Israel may have been quarantined at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

The health scare quickly became the focus of staff there Wednesday night, where personnel donned masks and gloves upon boarding the international flight where several passengers were reportedly ill.

The flight landed at Terminal One and is believed to be Air Canada Flight 085, originally departing from Tel-Aviv, Israel. There's no word on exactly what passengers are sick with, but multiple people aboard the plane have reportedly been quarantined for displaying flu-like symptoms.

Doctors and a quarantine officer are with them and Health Canada officials are also on board.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_18396.aspx

[Kasakato]

Sars Ii! :|

[CYP3A4]

8 still in quarantine. Probably nothing serious.

[aimfox]

just normal flu, basic sickness of weather change

[nano]

the weather doesn't make you sick...

[CYP3A4]

the weather doesn't make you sick...

but it does increase the probability of getting sick. Ie. cold weather makes people stay in-door more often, flu spreads more easily in closed quarters. I don't think this was caused by the flu though, the latency period doesn't seem to match, unless of course all the passengers were sick before they boarded.

[cwb27]

just normal flu, basic sickness of weather change

And SARS was probably just called chest congestion at the time too.

[CastIronStove]

Captain Trips!

[mlc2000]

the weather doesn't make you sick...

Yea but I'm sick of this weather !

[Tijuana]

the weather doesn't make you sick...

actually it does, sudden change in temperature leaves your body more vulnerable to receiving bacteria. ie you walk out from a gym sweating and its cold, then the sudden drop in your body temperature messes with your immune system so your more likely to getting sick. Even 10 degrees can make a difference. So I guess weather itself doesn't makes you sick, but plays a big part in it

[15-20_God]

must've been food poisoning from the kosher meal.

[CYP3A4]

must've been food poisoning from the kosher meal.

swine-borne bacteria?

[yyz2hkg]

Found it...It reminded me of a "HOUSE" episode. Maybe it was "Mass Hysteria"

Mass hysteria, also called collective hysteria, mass psychogenic illness, or collective obsessional behavior, is the sociopsychological phenomenon of the manifestation of the same or similar hysterical symptoms by more than one person. A common manifestation of mass hysteria occurs when people believe they are suffering from a similar disease or ailment.

SOURCE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria)

[mlc2000]

swine-borne bacteria?

Pigs can fly?

[Kasakato]

actually it does, sudden change in temperature leaves your body more vulnerable to receiving bacteria. ie you walk out from a gym sweating and its cold, then the sudden drop in your body temperature messes with your immune system so your more likely to getting sick. Even 10 degrees can make a difference. So I guess weather itself doesn't makes you sick, but plays a big part in it

Link for the facts? The last time I checked being cold for short periods of time has nothing to do with your immune system.
5 seconds of Google:
http://coldflu.about.com/od/cold/f/coldandweather.
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/features_julieshealthclub/2008/01/can-temperature.html

If our immune systems were suppressed every time we got sick, we would all be getting sick more often.

[UrbanPoet]

zombie?
http://i.fosfor.se/i06/060819_2.jpg

[df329]

actually it does, sudden change in temperature leaves your body more vulnerable to receiving bacteria. ie you walk out from a gym sweating and its cold, then the sudden drop in your body temperature messes with your immune system so your more likely to getting sick. Even 10 degrees can make a difference. So I guess weather itself doesn't makes you sick, but plays a big part in it

every time i walk home from the gym i get the flu! now i know why :lol:

[purple_rabbit]

That's why all the customs agents were wearing masks when I was at the airport yesterday :|