A passenger was admitted to the hospital as soon as the plane landed Miami. The man, who was travelling from Santo Domingo on American Airlines Flight, was rushed to the hospital as his cholera symptoms were apparent.

The man was admitted in Jackson Memorial Hospital, where doctors were waiting to diagnose him. The safety of other passengers was ensured so that nobody could contract the infection. Therefore, all the passengers were examined later on in order to make sure that nobody caught hold of the disease.

Cholera is highly contagious; the disease causes severe loss of water or dehydration.

Tim Smith, a spokesman for American Airlines, told the paper that if the person would have appeared to bore choleric symptoms he wouldn't have been allowed to enter the plane.

"To our knowledge, it's still considered a suspect case'', Kristen Nordlund, a Spokeswoman for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the paper. "It has not been confirmed as cholera".