Cholera is excluded after a suspected case on the flight Algeria-France

TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) – Firefighters have announced that a plane carrying 141 passengers and crews arrived Wednesday in the French city of Algeria, in Perpignan.

Doctors later discovered that the eight-year-old boy was not infected, said a local government official. He had been taken to the hospital for checks after episodes of vomiting and diarrhea during the flight.

The emergency services allowed other passengers and crew to leave after the disinfection of the hands and the plane was to return empty in Algeria to be cleaned and disinfected.

Algeria last month experienced its first cholera outbreak in 22 years, with two deaths. About 50 people have been infected and are treated in Boufarik, 30 km east of the capital, health authorities told the Algerian media.

The source of the outbreak has been attributed to bacteria from the Beni Azza River in Blida province, officials said. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika fired Monday the governor of Blida for failing to manage the epidemic.

The Algerian authorities have stated that the disease is under control, as no new cases have been recorded in the last three days.

(Report by Johanna Decorse, complementary report by Emmnauel Jarry and Inti Landauro in Paris and Lamine Chikhi in Algiers, editorial by Leigh Thomas, edited by Janet Lawrence)