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Carnival Cruiseline has confirmed that a passenger is in isolation aboard one of its ships in the Caribbean. However, the company says she has not been showing any sign of Ebola.
The woman, an employee of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital (where the Liberian Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, was treated) boarded the ship, along with a partner, on October 12 in Galveston, Texas. This was before the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the requirement for active monitoring.
Meanwhile, the cruiseline has announced that, effective immediately, passengers who have been to Ebola affected West African countries will not be allowed on board, as part of increased screening.
Earlier on Friday, the Belize Coast Guard said it would not let the vessel or any of its thousands of passengers into port.
The US State Department says it is working with the cruise line to get the ship back to America.
The woman, an employee of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital (where the Liberian Ebola patient, Thomas Eric Duncan, was treated) boarded the ship, along with a partner, on October 12 in Galveston, Texas. This was before the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the requirement for active monitoring.
Meanwhile, the cruiseline has announced that, effective immediately, passengers who have been to Ebola affected West African countries will not be allowed on board, as part of increased screening.
Earlier on Friday, the Belize Coast Guard said it would not let the vessel or any of its thousands of passengers into port.
The US State Department says it is working with the cruise line to get the ship back to America.