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TikToker says they think flight attendants mistook eczema for monkeypox - Insider

TikToker says they think flight attendants mistook eczema for monkeypox - Insider

TikToker says they think flight attendants mistook eczema for monkeypox - Insider
Aug 12, 2022 1 min, 12 secs

A TikToker told Insider that they believed they were escorted off a Spirit Airlines flight after their eczema was mistaken for monkeypox, the viral disease that was recently declared a public-health emergency in the US. .

Jacqueline Nguyen, who goes by @jacqueline.ngu on TikTok, shared a video recounting their experience of being ushered off a flight in Los Angeles.

Since the video was posted, Nguyen spoke with Insider and shared an update on TikTok, where they said that they were able to board the flight again after showing a tube of eczema cream.

Nguyen said that they and their wife, who was a flight attendant for Spirit, were flying standby and seated on a Spirit flight heading to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport when a complaint-resolution official boarded the flight and escorted the pair off the plane and onto the jet bridge. .

Nguyen said they posted on TikTok with the hope of bringing awareness to how some people with physical skin conditions are being treated during the monkeypox outbreak. 

Nguyen said Spirit Airlines had not reached out to them about the incident, and a day after posting their video on TikTok, their wife was released from her position

Insider recently reported on a woman whose benign skin tumors were mistaken for monkeypox in a TikTok video that was filmed without her consent, and commenters on Nguyen's TikTok video said they were fearful of something similar happening to them

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