The Center for Disease Control (CDC) had to temporarily quarantine an airplane at Newark International Airport on Saturday afternoon after a Liberian man traveling from Brussels was seen showing Ebola-like symptoms.

According to the British-based Daily Mail, passengers aboard the incoming flight were held for hours after the 35-year old man — who was also traveling with his daughter — were rushed off the plane and to a New York Area hospital.

At the hospital, medical personnel checked out the man and found that he did not have the dreaded Ebola virus, which has killed over 3,000 people in West Africa and was diagnosed in a Liberian man at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, the first known case of Ebola in the United States.

The man instead has another disease, which was easily treatable. His daughter, who is 10-years old, was also taken to the hospital and checked out for Ebola symptoms, but was also cleared of having the Ebola virus and showed no signs of any other illnesses.

Passengers on board the quarantined flight described the scene as chaotic, as CDC officials in full Hazmat gear rushed onto the plane and took the man and his daughter off of the flight and rushed them to University Hospital in Newark.

The extra precautions come after Thomas Eric Duncan became the first patient to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus at Dallas Presbyterian Hospital on Sept. 26. Duncan’s condition deteriorated on Saturday afternoon to ‘critical’ condition. Passengers on board the flight and in the Newark airport terminal went to Twitter to tweet their pictures of the situation:

A passenger who was on the quarantined flight tweeted this picture:

Drama on the flight from BRU, pax taken off by CDC, we are stuck on the plane, Immigration staff now on! pic.twitter.com/fQYieQRAPK

— Paul Chard (@paul_chard63) October 4, 2014

The remaining passengers were later allowed to leave after being quarantined for hours.

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