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Dubai-NYC Flight Ends With Passengers, Crew Taken To Hospital; Jet Quarantined

After landing, 10 people were taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, says Eric Phillips, press secretary for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. The CDC is investigating.

Updated at 1:33 p.m. ET

Health and safety officials are investigating an illness that struck people on an Emirates Airline flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday morning.

Seven crew members and three. It added that Wednesday's return flight from New York to Dubai would leave three hours late.

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