Carnival Cruise Ship Magic has been denied entry into ports in Belize and Cozumel, Mexico because of an Ebola scare. One passenger on this Caribbean cruise supposedly handled Thomas Eric Duncan samples before he died, then decided to hop aboard a cruise ship with 2000+ other people and take a vacation. Unlike with Amber Vinson, there is no word if this indiviudal got clearance from the CDC or not. In Vinson’s case, I don’t blame her for getting on that airplane, I place all the blame on the corrupt, incompetent CDC and Thomas Frieden. If this woman just hopped on a crusise ship with tousands of other people, without getting clearance from the CDC< then she needs to be held accountable for not waiting at least 21 days. The Carnival Magic tried to doc in Belize, and where rejected. Then they tried to doc in Mexico, and were denied there also. Can you really blame them? People on the ship are scared, panic, and crying. I don't really blame them either for this unnecessary risk.
There is “utter panic” on the Carnival cruise ship where a Dallas hospital employee who helped care for an Ebola patient who died has been put in quarantine. The ship is now being sent back to Texas after being turned away from both Belize and Mexico, one of the passengers said.
“People are scared,” passenger Jon Malone told ABC News as the Carnival Magic cruise ship was waiting miles off shore from Cozumel, Mexico. “I’ve seen people crying.”
The chaos started this morning when there was an announcement on the ship’s intercom saying “that someone who worked in the lab who handled the person in Dallas’s blood was on the ship,” Jon’s brother and fellow passenger Jeremy Malone told ABC. The cruise line said the woman is in isolation on board the ship.“You’re using the same buffet line as someone else, the same waiters, the folks that clean the state rooms. If someone was cleaning their state room and cleaned yours right after, the exposure that you have there to elevators…” he said. “It’s very tight quarters and a lot of interaction. 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.”