Dallas Hospital Worker Quarintined On Cruise Ship

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A Dallas hospital worker from hospital where patient zero was treated now in quarantine on a cruise ship. Sorry but what the heck is it with the urge to travel knowing how diseases are transmitted on a cruise ship of all places in extremely close quarters sometimes hundreds of miles/days from a port. I don't care what their bosses or CDC says. Common sense people! For your own safety if nothing else. They're complaining about conditions at the hospital along with the competency, training and equipment yet they think they were safe enough to travel in dense populations/tight quarters in a tube called a plane or big box called a boat. I don't know wether it's ignorance or selfishness.


http://nypost.com/2014/10/17/texas-hospital-staffer-in-self-quarantine-on-cruise-ship/
 

QuickSilver said:
Is that worker showing symptoms?
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Not so far. The CDC informed State Department to inform the worker and will be evacuated off ship. This was some kind of lab tech. But again if you go to the complaints about that hospital one of them was that patient's zero lab specimens were mixed in with routine work or not marked as an extreme hazard for a while anyway.
 

Younger people today don't get the severity of such an illness.. It's very abstract to them I think. We have lived through things like the Asian flu.. Polio, etc.. so while not as deadly or transmisable as Ebola... and certainly not as exotic.. we have a gut understanding of epidemics. They are all post vaccine babies..
 
QuickSilver said:
Younger people today don't get the severity of such an illness.. It's very abstract to them I think. We have lived through things like the Asian flu.. Polio, etc.. so while not as deadly or transmisable as Ebola... and certainly not as exotic.. we have a gut understanding of epidemics. They are all post vaccine babies..
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Interesting thought ... sort of like watching them encounter a pay phone booth for the first time - that look of utter and complete lack of knowledge ... :eek:
 
As far as I have heard, none of the Texas patient's relatives where he was saying have gotten sick at all, and yet they interacted with him, and took care of him when he was sent home from the hospital the first time.
But a nurse, who was supposed to be taking all of the necessary precautions, and she gets ebola, and it hasn't even been been the 21 days incubation period.
The pictures they show on the news , sometimes, the health people are shown in the has-mat type outfits, and others are right there helping and just wearing t-shirts or scrubs.
The health workers over seas help take care of patients without the protective outfits and then go home to their families at night.
Some things just don't seem to make sense with all of this.
 
That's true... So far none of the people in the apartment with him have gotten it.. It's amazing isn't it? AND they stayed in the apartment with soiled linen for a week. It doesn't make sense..
 
Thing is, we are all used to sitting in our nice safe homes in the west watching various calamities and diseases ravaging the third world..

This ones coming for us!
 
Twixie said:
Thing is, we are all used to sitting in our nice safe homes in the west watching various calamities and diseases ravaging the third world..

This ones coming for us!
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Yes, but we could stop it more quickly by closing our borders to people traveling to the U.S. from West African countries where the disease is proliferating. That nurse on the cruise was supposed to disembark in Belize and fly back to the U.S. but government officials there would not permit her to leave the ship which makes a lot of sense. They're watching out for their own which is what needs to be done in a situation like this.
 
She's still on the ship. Mexico wouldn't let it dock in Cozumel.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/eb...lands-blood-sample-ebola-cruise-scare-n228926

A helicopter landed aboard a cruise ship Saturday to pick up a blood sample from a passenger who may have handled fluids from an Ebola patient, ahead of the Carnival Magic’s planned docking at Galveston, Texas, Sunday.
Carnival said Texas health officials requested that a sample be taken from the passenger and tested, but that the ship is still scheduled to arrive Sunday morning. The company said of the passenger, who is in quarantine, that “she’s feeling absolutely fine.”

The passenger is a lab supervisor at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, where Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan was treated for Ebola and died on Oct. 8. Two nurses who treated Duncan at that hospital have since tested positive for the disease.

The employee on the cruise ship, who set sail on Oct. 12, did not have “direct contact” with Duncan himself, Carnival has said. Still, amid worries about the disease Mexican officials would not grant the ship clearance to make a scheduled stop at Cozumel on Friday afternoon.
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Things are not good on the cruise ship.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...etri-dish-Panic-onboard-the-Ebola-cruise.html
 
Just heard on the news.... The blood of the person on the ship has tested negative for Ebola.. Cruise ruined... hope this dimwit is proud of herself.
 

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