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Measles Case on Cruise Ship Leads to Quarantine in St. Lucia

posted by martyb on Friday May 03 2019, @11:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the problem-with-close-quarters dept.

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The Caribbean nation of St. Lucia has quarantined a cruise ship on the island after identifying a confirmed case of measles on board, a health official said.

Passengers and crew members aboard the large ship were not permitted to leave, Dr. Merlene Fredericks-James, the nation’s chief medical officer, said on Tuesday. The highly infectious disease, which can be mostly prevented by a common vaccination, is in the midst of its largest outbreak in a quarter-century in the United States, with more than 700 cases reported.

“Because of the risk of potential infection, not just from the confirmed measles case but from other persons who may be on the boat at the time, we thought it prudent to make a decision not to allow anyone to disembark,” she said in a statement.

Dr. Fredericks-James did not name the ship. But Victor Theodore, a St. Lucia Coast Guard sergeant, told NBC News that it was identified as “Freewinds,” which is reportedly owned and operated by the Church of Scientology. A ship by the same name was moored in St. Lucia on Thursday morning, according to online records.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/world/americas/measles-scientology-cruise-ship.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by looorg on Friday May 03 2019, @03:08PM (2 children)

    by looorg (578) on Friday May 03 2019, @03:08PM (#838428)

    Who needs vaccinations when you have Dianetics. This measles thing is just some biological warfare attack from Xenu. I'm sure that one or two, very expensive, sessions with the e-meters will cure that stuff right up. It's probably just all in their minds and the e-meter is sure to realign the body thetan again and then all will be fine. After all medication and drugs are for the weak.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday May 04 2019, @05:40AM (1 child)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday May 04 2019, @05:40AM (#838726)

    You jest, but this is pretty much the same mentality that other religious anti-vax people have, and there's millions of them out there.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @09:34AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 04 2019, @09:34AM (#838774)

      In other measles threads I've established there is no way to make a proper comparison between the benefits/risks of measles vs the vaccine. The response so far has been straight up denial, and when asked to link to the data one guy said he was sure it existed... I needed to go check out the microfiche collections at a bunch of libraries to find the data. The other stopped responding.

      I am sure neither accepted the reality. This is religious belief.