A West African passenger aboard a United Airlines flight that landed in Newark on Tuesday has been hospitalized to be checked for Ebola, the CDC said.
The news comes the same day the feds announced a rule that would funnel passengers from Ebola-afflicted West African nations to one of five U.S. airports - including Newark Liberty International.
'During the enhanced screening process for individuals arriving to the United States from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, an individual was identified as reporting symptoms or having a potential exposure to Ebola,' Carol Crawford, a CDC spokeswoman, said in a statement sent to the Newark Star-Ledger.
The passenger was hospitalized at University Hospital, where officials told visitors the facility, a Level 1 trauma center, was on lockdown, the paper reported.
The plane, United Airlines Flight 998, originated in Brussels, though the ill passenger traveled first from Liberia, WNBC-TV reported.
The flight is the same route that had a similar scare nearly three weeks ago, when a vomiting Liberian passenger forced officials to temporarily quarantine the jet.
More than 250 passengers aboard that Oct. 4 flight from Brussels were held on the plane for almost two hours as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers wearing hazmat suits removed the passenger - a Liberian national who had vomited on approach - from the plane. His daughter was also removed.
Enhanced screening measures have also been instituted at Kennedy Airport, Washington Dulles, Chicago O'Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta.
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