away games against dr congo were played in lubumbashi, and both games against cameroon were played in yaounde. guinea managed to get their home games moved to casablanca, morocco. even after calls to have the 2015 afcon postponed, the equatorial guinea government and caf organisers have downplayed these concerns, and insisted that they would have ample measures in place, including: temperature check for all passengers arriving at the international airports. photograph and fingerprints of international passengers. immunization certificates with detailed medical history. hand sanitizer to be used at all stadium turnstiles. 30 specialist doctors on standby. on 7 august 2014, a social media hoax message was doing the rounds in nigeria. it urged readers to "bath with hot water and salt before daybreak" and to drink as much of it as possible. on 8 august, the person who started the joke message to see how many of their friends would fall for it, identified it as such and posted an apology. the hoax message quickly went viral when "several gullible, unsophisticated opinion leaders" repeated the hoax message. within days many were hospitalized due to excessive salt intake, with 2 deaths in jos, plateau, 2 deaths in makurdi, benue and at least 3 deaths in bauchi. it is ironic that these deaths all happened in states that had no known evd infected people. in fact only lagos state and rivers state had any infected. furthermore, the unconfirmed death toll of the hoax cure is as many as the evd death toll for nigeria, with 8 deaths each. in two separate incidents in october, flights have been delayed from disembarking because of an ebola joke. on 8 october 2014, us airways flight 845 from philadelphia to punta cana, dominican republic was held up for two hours on the tarmac when an american passenger sneezed, then announced "i have ebola. you're all screwed," during the flight. after landing, he was escorted off the plane by four emergency personnel wearing blue hazmat suits, and detained until medical tests cleared him. on 30 october 2014, during the aer lingus flight ei 433, from milan, italy to dublin, ireland a passenger wrote "'attenzione ebola'" ("attention ebola") on a coffee lid before handing it to his daughter. the container and lid were discreetly disposed of, however a flight attendant noticed, and alerted the captain. the passenger was arrested, and later pleaded guilty to "engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting behavior on an airplane contrary to the air navigation and transport act", and was fined 2500 euros.