Emirates Plane Quarantined at JFK After 100 Report Feeling Sick: Sources

The plane had stopped at Mecca, which is currently undergoing a flu outbreak. The possibility of a pandemic originating in Mecca, where *millions* of people from around the world – including a large percentage of people from the third world, where diseases are common and healthcare is minimal and backwards – has been raised before. If planes coming from Mecca are arriving filled with people carrying a dangerous infectious disease, considerations should be given to quarantining the city itself for a few months until the disease runs its course and burns out.

Photo unrelated. Or is it?

Of course, it’s also always possible that the sick passengers simply had the fish.