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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating after 12 American Airlines passengers on two separate flights between Europe and Philadelphia International Airport suffered from flu-like symptoms on Thursday.
"This afternoon, 12 passengers arriving at the Philadelphia International Airport on international flights on American Airlines from Paris and on American Airlines from Munich have presented flu-like symptoms," the airport said in a statement. .
"As a precaution, all passengers on both flights – totaling approximately 250 crew members – were held for a medical examination and the CDC was informed."
According to the CDC, sick passengers reported having sore throats and coughing, but none had a fever.
"No passengers are seriously ill and they will be released and informed of test results within 24 hours," the agency said in a statement.
NBC Philadelphia indicated that the two flights concerned were AA755 and AA717.
American Airlines did not immediately return the request for comments from Business Insider.
Customs and border officials told NBC Philadelphia that the sick passengers were all from Makkah, Saudi Arabia, where an influenza outbreak had recently begun.
The incident comes one day after an Emirates plane was quarantined at the JFK International Airport in New York and 11 passengers were hospitalized for flu-like symptoms.
"For the 11 people taken to the hospital, preliminary tests indicate that some patients have been tested positive for influenza and / or other common respiratory viruses," the CDC said in a statement about passengers d & # 39; Emirates. "Patients are treated by the hospital, including antivirals."
Passengers and crew who were quarantined Wednesday in New York City reported coughing, fever and gastrointestinal symptoms during the 14-hour flight from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
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