What Does It Take for the CDC to Quarantine a Whole Airplane?

Don’t worry. The zombie apocalypse isn’t coming today.

Popular Science
Sep 6, 2018 · 5 min read
Photo: Ashim D’Silva

By Kat Eschner

The good news is, we’re (probably) not witnessing the start of a zombie apocalypse — but the news of this morning’s quarantine of a flight carrying more than 500 people at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York does…

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