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.”
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They had to cruise on back home.
Some people say the music's to blame,
But I know, it's their own damn fault ...
Again.
In Margaritaville.
CC
Look for the seal and tax stamp. And check the bottom of the bottle for holes.
CC
47 morons
It was the salmon mousse!
CC
It is not uncommon for resorts to substitute cheaper alcohol for high priced name brand alcohol. Last visit to Costa Maya I sure has hell knew it was not Jim Beam but it was a decent sour mash of unknown origin.
These resorts have zero want to poison their guests. It will kill their business. These recent deaths are planned. It should also be noted that methanol has frequently been mentioned. Methanol will cause great gastric distress, blindness and death due to liver failure. This is not quick and takes days. These people died quickly. This was not methanol but a deliberate poisoning by at this time a unknown substance
A similar thing happened to my sister on her Def Leppard cruise last year.
I think I’ll pass on cruise ships until they train the staff in correct foodsafe practices!
Curious if the victims who died had autopsy’s performed..
Bringing new definition to “wasting away in Margeuritaville.”
Fewer than usual, tho.
I’m sure at the very bottom of this will find a politician or political appointee who was making money from bootleg booze.
Remember when making bootleg. 10% must be donated back to the gods or bad things will happen. The 10% being methanol alcohol.
should have gone to Haiti instead?
And then you blew out a flip flop and cut your heel and had to cruise on back home.
LOL....eeeew.
Stop going to turd world, leftist regime sh!t holes!!
Problem solved.
OK, Bermuda and Bahamas are mighty fine too. But Dominican Republic? Why?
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