Italy repechage, for some it’s "Nightmare about contaminated city" for Ebola
A flight departing from Paris and bound for Detroit was forced to land in Montreal, Canada, at the request of U.S. authorities after a person from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country hit by an Ebola outbreak, was found on board. Authorities did not clarify whether the passenger was showing symptoms of the disease or when he had last been in the African country. The United States explained only that the person’s boarding had occurred by mistake. Once he landed in Montreal, the passenger was taken off the plane, which then resumed its journey to Detroit with the other travelers on board.
In the meantime, irony has been unleashed on the Web with parallels to A Nightmare on the Tainted City, a 1980 horror film directed by Umberto Lenzi. The story follows Dean Miller, a television journalist played by Hugo Stiglitz (ironically Mexican, ed.), assigned to interview a famous scientist arriving at the city’s airport. The landing, however, takes a dramatic turn: along with the scientist come monstrous creatures that immediately attack the police and spread chaos throughout the city. At the origin of the passengers’ transformation is a radioactive leak from a nuclear power plant, which mutates humans into vicious, bloodthirsty vampires. These creatures can only be stopped by destroying their brains, blowing them up or burning them, while their bite transmits the contagion to other victims.
Mexican health authorities have also turned the spotlight on the possible risk that the Ebola epidemic could arrive in the country at the World Cup, considering that one of the DRC’s matches will be played in Mexico, a nation that by the way had also offered to host Iran’s matches: an issue that has not yet been resolved and that allows Italy to still have a hope, albeit infinitesimal, of playing in the rainbow review.
The Congolese selection will play against Colombia on June 23 in Guadalajara, while the other two challenges in the round will be played in the United States: on June 17 against Portugal in Houston and on June 27 against Uzbekistan in Atlanta.
