United Flight Canceled Over Woman’s ‘Biohazard’ Diarrhea

Flights get canceled for all kinds of reasons—storms, maintenance issues, or someone refusing to wear shoes. But a woman pooping and puking so hard that a hazmat team has to be called? That’s a new one.

It happened last summer on a United flight from Newark to Indianapolis. Writer and actor Meghan Reinertsen had just landed from Portugal when she boarded her connection, already feeling queasy—thanks, she later realized, to an undercooked hamburger she had eaten the night before.

“Something is brewing. Something is happening that I am not prepared to deal with,” she recalled in a TikTok video that’s now been viewed nearly 20 million times.

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Woman’s ‘Biohazard’ Diarrhea Cancels Flight