BREAKING: Man on U.S. Airways Flight Claims to Have Exposed All Aboard To Smallpox

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Just watching CNN, a man on a U.S. Airways flight has calimed to
have exposed everyone aboard the plane to Smallpox.
The plane has been quarantined, and experts in Hazmat suits are on
the scene.
It's not known if this is a hoax or not, though the man may have
been drunk.

Hopefully this is a Hoax

hope he's either drunk or very foolish.

If I was on that plane, I wouldn't find t.his amusing at all if it turns out to be a hoax. Smallpox isn't a joking type of thing.

I am trying to find a link on this, but it is too fresh. It was on CNN Pipeline, but the stream ended.

Hopefully its a hoax, but with the plane in quarantine, it looks like there may be some frightening validity to this story.

Yeah I think he's probably drunk, or looking for a name in the news.
I cant find any links either, keep checkin!

Good Guess.

officials said he was intoxicated, shouted that he had exposed everyone to smallpox.

The test will take a couple hours but they don't think he has it.

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[edit on 3/23/07 by makeitso]

Just to close the smallpox threat here is this article:

Flight Quarantined Over Pox Threat Was Hoax

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- An airline passenger who claimed he had smallpox wasn't telling the truth, health officials said Friday.

But health officials in North Carolina, weren't taking any chances. They quarantined a U.S. Airways jet with 116 people aboard for several hours Friday when it arrived at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport from New Orleans.

The plane landed around 3:30 p.m. Eastern and was cleared around 7 p.m., when officials confirmed the threat was false. The man was checked for small pox at a local hospital. No evidence of the disease was found.

The only mystery now is why offficials are debating whter or not to charge the hoaxster.