Posted on 06/17/2019 2:06:35 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Adding to the rising numbers of people who have either fallen ill or died while visiting Dominican Republic hotels and resorts, a group of Oklahoma-based Jimmy Buffett fans allegedly grew violently sick while visiting the Dominican Republic’s Hotel Riu Palace Macao on an April group trip to Punta Cana.
Dana Flowers, a member of the Central Oklahoma Parrothead Association (who also serves as the group’s travel agent), tells PEOPLE that 47 of the 114 people on the the trip got sick, with many unable to leave their rooms. He said some are still not feeling “normal” two months later.
“We went [to Hotel Riu Palace Macao] for the week — some longer, some shorter,” he tells PEOPLE. “We were enjoying the beach and the pool, and about 3 or 4 days into the trip we started hearing about people getting sick. They were getting diarrhea, vomiting, dizziness, headaches.”
Flowers says the group initially chalked the mystery ailment up to food poisoning, but their symptoms began to worsen. Flowers, who was among those affected by the illness, claims he lost 14 pounds over the course of 19 days. “It was some of the worst sick I’ve ever been, and I don’t normally ever get sick,” he says.
Flowers claims that everyone who grew ill in his group either swam in one specific pool or drank at the swim-up bar. When members of the group sought treatment from the on-site doctor, Flowers claims, ”Most of them got an IV, then were prescribed a medicine for parasites. [They] didn’t do any testing, they just automatically gave them medicine for parasites.”
*SNIP*
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group trip to Punta Cana.Kick the can?
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That's been my guess for awhile.
D.R. = Diarrhea Republic.
Damn, I was going to go there!
After I visited all the other countries first...
What is the allure to the Dominican Republic? I can think of many better places.
Do Jimmy Buffet fans drink?
An interesting statistical investigation would be to figure out if any people in the group choose not to drink alcohol and whether or not they also got sick.
Rapid weight loss?
Do they stop drinking?
“Why don’t we get drunk and spew.”
Sounds like Shigella. Nasty stuff. Takes a long time to recover.
Tempting...
What were they eating spoiled oysters, and listening to god awful beach bubblegum music (with xylophones, and conga drums), idiotic lyrics?
You know— nibbling on sponge cake watching the sun bake
all of those tourists covered in oil.....
Cause it’s just too hard to hang onto 30 million dollar sailboats and triple laundered cocaine money real estate-— not without kilos of self use, and “booze in the blender” that will render... the concoction to help. Beach bubble gum. Guess it beats The Archies. Who wouldn’t get sick? But that’s just an opinion, and like crucial body parts some people are one.
“47 Jimmy Buffett Fans Get Violently Sick On Group Trip to Dominican Republic”
They’ll blame Trump as Buffett is a big democRAT.
Yeah, get rid of the fusel oil that comes over first as distillate.
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