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.


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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??

Yeah, now the US is also beginning to feel the heat of bans and rejections.

A very huge cockup.

Ebola is a hoax.