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Ebola: Mexico And Belize Reject US Cruise Ship by saintneo(m): 2:28pm On Oct 19, 2014 |
Ebola cruise ship ‘in utter panic’ as Mexico and Belize refuse to let it dock. The Carnival Magic cruise ship with Texas healthcare worker exposed to Ebola aboard arrived back in the US on Sunday morning. By ZACHARY DAVIES BOREN Sunday 19 October 2014 Passengers aboard the cruise ship at the centre of an Ebola scare were in a panic after being refused to dock at either Mexico or Belize, with one claiming “it’s like a floating petri dish.” A Texas healthcare worker who had handled a blood sample of Thomas Duncan, the Liberian man who died from Ebola in the US earlier this month, has been quarantined in her room aboard the Carnival Magic cruise ship. The unnamed woman, who is a lab supervisor at Texas Health Presbyterian, is deemed by the CDC to be “low risk” and has yet to exhibit symptoms. She is also approaching the end of her 21- day maximum incubation window after which it can be confirmed that she did not contract Ebola. Since it left Galveston, Texas on October 12, the cruise has twice attempted to dock to enable the quarantined woman to fly back to the US for observation. First Belize refused to let the ship dock, its Prime Minister Dean Barrow saying “there are still a lot of unanswered question as to how this thing gets transmitted.” Then Mexico turned away the Carnival Magic thereby forcing it to maintain the on- ship quarantine as it returned to the US. It arrived at Galveston, Texas at around 6am Sunday morning. The news of the potential Ebola infection, and the subsequent rejected requests to dock, prompted a panic aboard the cruise, with one passenger likening the ship to a “floating petri dish.” Jon Malone is quoted by The Telegraph as saying: "People are scared. I've seen people crying. You're using the same buffet line as someone else, the same waiters, the folks that clean the state rooms. "It's really difficult to control any type of virus that's on a cruise ship. It's like a floating petri dish. It spreads very rapidly. They're cleaning elevators. I've seen people with pink liquid cleaning the bar area and the handrails." Another passenger, who called himself Michael, told CNN: "Obviously our concern is where is this person is on the ship and what kind of set up do they have to care for them? I can't imagine it's a completely quarantined area. They have not told us at all where the person is. "My wife has medication for a kidney transplant, she's susceptible to getting something a little easier than the rest of us, and we don't know where this person has been on the ship." Eric Lupher, a reporter for ABC7 in Denver, Colorado, is aboard the ship. He said: "We were about five miles off the shore of Belize just sitting in the boat in the ocean, not knowing what was going on. The boat wasn't moving. It was like that for several hours. Then we started moving in the middle of the night. "More than 12 hours later we were told this person was on the ship. The captain came on the loudspeaker and told us what was going on. He never said the word Ebola, but everyone knew. On the elevators, people were talking about it. And a lot of people were upset about it." He added: "There is a lot of concern over what's going to happen when we get back to Galveston. It's our understanding we're just going to get off the boat and go home - but is that really going to happen?" Lupher has been posting on Twitter about the situation on the Carnival Magic. On Saturday evening, he tweeted a picture of a helicopter that picked up a blood sample of the quarantined passenger, a development that has been confirmed by US official. More here |
Re: Ebola: Mexico And Belize Reject US Cruise Ship by madamoringo(f): 2:50pm On Oct 19, 2014 |
How and who allowed a quarantined person who had not exhausted the mandatory requirement for quarantine and discharge leave and get on a cruise ship?? This is is astoundingly foolis.h and surreal! What a disaster if the person is infected and infects people on the ship?? |
Re: Ebola: Mexico And Belize Reject US Cruise Ship by MurderX: 3:42pm On Oct 19, 2014 |
Yeah, now the US is also beginning to feel the heat of bans and rejections. |
Re: Ebola: Mexico And Belize Reject US Cruise Ship by saintneo(m): 3:43pm On Oct 19, 2014 |
A very huge cockup. |
Re: Ebola: Mexico And Belize Reject US Cruise Ship by Nobody: 4:24pm On Oct 19, 2014 |
Ebola is a hoax. |
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