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Passengers Set Free Following Quarantine at French Airport

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A passenger plane had been quarantined in an airport in Perpignan, France, on suspicion of a cholera infection on board.

The plane with 141 people onboard, including five children, had been blocked since 1:50 p.m. local time after it had arrived from Algeria.

According to preliminary data, upon arrival, a crew member signaled that one of the passengers, reportedly a child, was ill. The authorities immediately took the child and his mother into the airport for treatment. The other passengers were asked to disinfect their hands.

Cholera is a highly contagious infection that can be transferred by contact with contaminated food or water.

Earlier in the day, an Emirates flight, carrying some 100 passengers, was quarantined in New York after the passengers on board started feeling sick. According to law enforcement sources, between seven to 10 people on board were taken to hospital.

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