Plane quarantined in Glasgow by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu

A plane was quarantined Thursday upon arrival on Glasgow airport. According to a spokesman, passengers flying to Britain from the Dominican Republic started to feel sick with a stomach bug. "The aircraft was quarantined on arrival," said Donald Morrison, a spokesman for the British Airports Authority (BAA) in Scotland, after some 27 passengers of the MyTravel flight fell ill. According to Morrison, the people were diagnosed with the "winter vomiting bug". The condition also known as the Norovirus is a genus of viruses of the family Caliciviridae. Recent scientific findings reveal that the genus causes around 50% of all gastroenteritis (stomach pain, diarrhea, and vomiting) around the world.[1] It is considered the most important group of viruses associated with this condition. The prototype virus of the genus is the Norwalk virus. The passengers had all stayed at the same hotel in the Dominican Republic, one of the world's poorest countries. All affected passengers received treatment and none required hospital attention before being allowed home. Although Morrison did not say anything about where the passengers might have caught the virus, the Evening Times newspaper in Glasgow revealed that a number of people who have reported the same illness, were also stayin at the same Carribean hotel as the passengers of the flight.

by Ioana Madalina Tantareanu for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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