Third U.S. Texas Ebola hospital worker quarantine on Carnival Cruise Line

A Carnival Cruise Line which was carrying more than 4,000 passengers denied entry to Mexico and forced to return to the United States after officials discovered that a woman on board is a health-care worker who treated late Liberian Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan.

The lab tech, who worked at the Dallas hospital where Duncan died, set sail from Galveston, Texas, on Sunday aboard the 1,000-foot Carnival Magic.

She had shown no symptoms of the deadly virus waited until Thursday to quarantine herself and her husband in their room, the cruise line said in a statement.

“The individual remains in voluntary isolation,” Carnival said.

The rest of the passengers were permitted to disembark in Belize on Thursday, but the country would not allow her to go through its port to get a flight back to the United States.

On Friday, they arrived in Cozumel, Mexico, where Mexican officials refused to allow the ship to dock. The crew decided to go back to Texas, where they will arrive on Sunday.

Source: NYPost