Transportation More: Ebola Virus Cruise Texas A Caribbean Cruise Ship Can’t Dock Because Of A Worker Who May Have Had Contact With The Ebola Virus
Dina Spector
BusinessInsider.com
Oct. 17, 2014
Thousands of passengers are trapped aboard the Carnival Magic cruise ship with a Dallas health worker who may have handled specimens from Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian patient with Ebola who later died at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
The US Centers for Disease Control alerted the cruise operator on Wednesday that a guest on the ship was a lab supervisor at the hospital where Duncan was treated.
The unnamed woman, who was traveling with her husband, has agreed to remain isolated in a cabin, the State Department said in statement, while the cruise line and the US government are working to bring the employee back to America.
The husband does not appear to be in the isolation room with his wife.
The employee, who has not shown any signs of illness and does not have a fever, did not come into direct contact with Duncan but may have processed some of the patient’s fluid samples, the State Department said.
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