American passenger bundled off U.S. to Dominican Republic flight by hazmat team after sneezing and joking 'I have Ebola!'

                       

Hazmat team rushed on to a plane from Philadelphia in the Dominican Republic after a man sneezed and yelled: 'I have Ebola!' dailymail. reports.
The American passenger, who does not have Ebola, was detained by four officers and taken to the airport's medical center in Punta Cana as he declared: 'I ain't from Africa'.
The remaining 255 people were forced to stay on board for two hours until he was cleared, despite airline staff insisting they believed it was a poor-taste joke.

Continue...

She then started by explaining that 'after 30 years in the business' she is sure 'this man is an idiot'.
However, a team would be boarding the plane that 'looks scarier than it is'.
People filming the incident on their phones shouted 'boo!' at the unnamed passenger as he was forced to stand and remove his luggage from the overhead compartment before being escorted off the plane.
He then underwent intensive medical checks and interviews with airport officials to determine that he had been joking.

'
It was a false alarm set off by the passenger who is slightly unbalanced,' Alberto Smith, director of operations at Punta Cana Airport, told Acento.com.do.
He did not elaborate on what he meant by 'unbalanced'.
He added that the passenger 'did it for attention', and explained: 'His passport does not show any recent trips to Africa. The closest he came to the continent was in 2012 when he visited Europe.'