A Nigerian airline passenger with high fever is causing for Spanish authorities to activate the emergency Ebola protocol.
An Air France plane carrying 183 passengers has been quarantined in Madridโs Barajas Airport over this passenger showing Ebola-like symptoms.
Flight AF1300 departed from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport on Thursday morning and landed in the Spanish capital at 11:30am local time.
The aircraft has been moved to a special zone of Barajas Airport in compliance with established protocol.
The man with suspected Ebola symptoms traveled to Paris from Nigerian capital of Lagos.
The crew of the plane informed the airport authorities, which activated the sanitary protocol. The other passengers of the fight had disembarked “normally,” Air France sources told Europa Press.
The plane will now be disinfected, Reuters reports adding that the return flight has been canceled.
The man will be taken to Madrid’s Carlos III Hospital, where he will remain in isolation while the checks are underway.