US Air Marshall Quarantined after being attacked with syringe in Lagos airport

The FBI and CDC are investigating an attack on a federal air marshal who was injected with a syringe full of an unknown substance inside the Lagos, Nigeria airport on Sunday.The air marshal was traveling with a team of other marshals when the attack took place in an unsecured area of the airport terminal in Lagos.

He was able to board the United Airlines flight to Houston he was scheduled to work and was met in Houston by FBI agents and health workers.Amid fears the substance could contain some form of the Ebola virus, the air marshal was immediately put into quarantine. The FBI said he was screened "on-scene... out of an abundance of caution.

"According to Foxnews,an alert was issued stating

  "The [air marshal] reported that the subject stuck him with a syringe and it is believed he was injected with an unknown substance,The State Department responded to the airport to assist the air marshal and his team.After consultation with the consulate and physicians, the [federal air marshal] was given precautionary medication,The air marshal and the rest of his team--along with the syringe used in the attack-- were immediately flown out of Nigeria and back to the U.S.The syringe also was transported back to the U.S. for testing.

 FBI spokesman Jon Adler,said

 "out of an abundance of caution, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted an on-scene screening of the victim when United Flight 143 landed in Houston early Monday morning. The victim did not exhibit any signs of illness during the flight and was transported to a hospital upon landing for further testing. None of the testing conducted has indicated a danger to other passengers."
This investigation is still in the preliminary stage and early indications are limited to a criminal nexus."

Credit: MPN