The U.S. State Department said Friday that a Texas hospital worker who may have handled Ebola samples has been isolated on a cruise ship in the Caribbean.
The unnamed Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital employee set sail on the cruise Sunday from Galveston, Texas, according to a statement from State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. Psaki said the employee, who had no direct contact with diseased Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan but may have had contact with fluid samples collected from him, has been self-monitoring since Oct. 6 and has shown no symptoms of the illness.
“The cruise line has actively supported CDC’s efforts to speak with the individual, whom the cruise ship’s medical doctor has monitored and confirmed was in good health,” Psaki said in the statement. “Following this examination, the hospital employee and traveling partner have voluntarily remained isolated in a cabin. We are working with the cruise line to safely bring them back to the United States out of an abundance of caution.”
Carnival said in a statement to NBC News that its Carnival Magic ship was being held off the coast of Belize until the hospital worker could be removed and taken back to the U.S.
we’re getting close to full blown panic… scarbro this morning screeching about implementing a travel ban; and chris matthews doubling down on his hysteria recommending that something akin to leper colonies be established for the ebola carriers…
good grief.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital has also announced lab workers in their infectious disease department have been instructed to travel about the Dallas metropolitan area licking door knobs in local restaurants and taverns.
“Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is an 898-bed acute-care
hospital treating some of the most complicated cases in North Texas. The facility is committed to transforming health care in North Texas.”
Seems they’ve far exceeded their goals – they’ve managed to transform health care nationwide.
I never took everything Hunter Thompson said as gospel, but his characterization of the United States as a nation of “frightened dullards” often comes to mind. We’re panicking as badly as we did when AIDS first emerged and we didn’t even know how you got that for quite a while. Just pathetic. Land of the brave, indeed.
Would those be like the Internment Camps for the Japanese during WW@? You know the ones for the people with slanted eyes that lost everything they had!!
Maybe we could start a camp for people like Matthews that can spit on each other and we wouldn’t have to worry about them spitting on us!!