A Texas lab technician is in voluntary quarantine aboard a Carnival Cruise ship after the CDC issued a travel ban on workers from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas who were near where Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan died.
The technician on the cruise ship handled fluids from the dead Ebola patient.
The new CDC requirements are that suspected carriers are banned from planes, trains, ships, bars, restaurants, stores, theaters, and other public locations for a period of 21 days from their last contact.
The technician will be at day 21 on Sunday, and she is currently quarantined in the room with her husband and is showing no symptoms of the disease.
The cruise ship, with 4000 passengers, was set to dock in Mexico, but the country refused to let the ship dock.
The ship was able to let the passengers, except the possibly infected passenger, disembark in Belize and is returning to Texas, where it will arrive on Sunday.
In addition, Dallas nurse, Nina Pham (26) has been diagnosed with Ebola, and is in fair condition and being treated.
While another Dallas nurse, Amber Vinson (29), who was infected with Ebola, flew on a plane between Dallas and Cleveland. She is hospitalized in stable condition. She was flying out to plan her upcoming wedding.
Both nurses treated Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
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