False alarms on US flights over Ebola fears

Atlanta

THE arrival of the Ebola virus in the United States is stirring anxiety across the airline industry as flight crews and passengers fret that a fever or upset stomach on board could be a sign of the deadly disease.

False alarms are becoming routine at US airports. Crews surrounded an Emirates Airline jet in Boston on Monday after fliers showed flu-like symptoms, three days after a similar rush to isolate a Delta Air Lines plane in Las Vegas because of an Ebola scare.