El Al Flight Attendant Who Contracted Measles In New York Passed Away
August 15, 2019
Rotem Amitai, the El Al flight attendant who contracted measels on a flight from New York on March 26, passed away Tuesday after spending four months in a coma.
She was forty three years old.
An excerpt from the New York Post last April reported that Amitai suffered from encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain caused by viruses such as rabies, bacteria, fungi or parasites.