Posted on 10/17/2014 5:34:58 AM PDT by Robe
Obama administration officials said a Dallas health care worker who handled a lab specimen from an Ebola-infected man from Liberia who died of the disease is on a Caribbean cruise ship where she has self-quarantined and is being monitored for any signs of infection.
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If I ever have to “self quarantine” I’m going to book a cruise cabin or some place with room service
OMG that’s the same cruise hubby and I were thinking about taking next spring with our MyVegas points. Those were pre-Ebola plans, lol.
Wow Obola ia a gift that just keep on giving.
She doesn’t have any symptoms, which is good.
Worst
Love
Boat
Episode
EVER!
There are other articles that say she indeed DOES have symptoms. The CDC saying she is not displaying symptoms means nothing to me. This government lies. And lies repeatedly to cover their arses.
It sounds exotic, for sure. It's anything but. I was on a cruise on which a handful of people got quarantined with NorvoVirus. The good news is the quarantine worked and the disease didn't spread. The bad news is the quarantined people went stark raving mad locked in their cabins 24/7 with food left at their door and only the TV to keep them company. One tried to sneak out of the room once and they caught her....the staff was constantly monitoring her. The rules get very heavy-handed to protect everyone else.
Then there's the cost issue. If a cruiser doesn't have the cruise lines health insurance, any expenses (including evacuation and a stay at a medical facility) are put on your credit card and it's between the cruiser and their insurance to get them to pay.
Sorry to burst that bubble....
She was part of the group considered to be only distantly in contact with Duncan and therefore was simply told to take her temperature twice a day but otherwise to go on with her life. She was already on the cruise when the restrictions were expanded when Vinson was diagnosed.
When they were informed about this, she and her husband apparently restricted themselves to their cabin and were waiting to be evacuated to the US as a precautionary measure (probably demanded by the cruise line).
The problem was that at the very onset of this, they announced some (but not enormous) restrictions for a certain set of “high risk” Duncan contacts, but very few for what were considered “low risk,” such as people who didn’t have direct contact with him. It comes of the CDC not taking it seriously, in my opinion, which was the reason that there were no severe mandatory restrictions on the first group and only minor restrictions on the activities of the second group. Now, of course, they’re trying to make up for lost time. (It has been 19 days since this woman had any contact with Duncan’s fluids, so it seems pretty unlikely that she has it.)
That said, I’ve been wondering if the fluid contact is not so much respiratory fluids as stomach or bowel fluids, which all of the health care workers (in any country) would have had some contact with (ick!). Perhaps the virus is more concentrated there. I was reading that one of the reasons for high rates of contagion in Africa is that part of the burial process consists of “pressing the remaining fluids out of the stomach” of the dead person. Double ick - and it would certainly give plenty of exposure to the people doing it.
If it turns out she really has Ebola they’ll have to tow that boat out to sea and sink it. No one will ever want to sail on it again.
Officials story doesn't make sense. So, a nurse decided she is going on a cruise, then week later she wakes up in the cabin, perfectly fine according to US media and says -- Oops, I just recalled I was in contact with that Ebola patient, I better quarantine myself and ask to be flown back.
It doesn't add up.
cruise ships? cruise ships? haven’t they been in the news in the past. I remember something about an outbreak of illness on cruise ships? Its really easy to spread disease on a cruise ship because of the close contact between passengers?
Something like that.
boy! talk about a bummer!
the lady books a cruise (might be her trip of a lifetime, saved up for years, etc.) then some nut lies about his health and comes to the USA and ends up in her ward...
then she listens to the ‘experts’ (big mistake, i know but...) who tell her that she can’t possibly get sick without ‘close contact’, and she takes off on her dream cruise.. and then WHAM! gets clobbered by all this crap... AND she get’s blames for not having the foresight of the ‘experts’.
and it is no less a bummer for the OTHER passengers, crew, etc...
all because one guy lied and got on a plane....
Maybe she has motion sickness.
What?!?! I can see removing the insides in those Egyptian mummies but what the heck are Africans going to do with poo and stomach contents?
There’s a reason for travel insurance.
Like, “Carnival” really needed this.
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