Dallas Health Care Worker Who Handled Lab Specimen From Ebola Patient Quarantined On Caribbean Cruise Ship - CBS DC

I can't believe what I am reading. Why did they allow her on the ship? They Quarantined an Ebola Patient On Caribbean Cruise Ship!?  When I started reading I supposed the ship was docked with no other passengers. It's on a cruise folks! The US government has become a ship of fools!!!

Dallas Health Care Worker Who Handled Lab Specimen From Ebola Patient Quarantined On Caribbean Cruise Ship - CBS DC

Dallas Health Care Worker Who Handled Lab Specimen From Ebola Patient Quarantined On Caribbean Cruise Ship

October 17, 2014 9:50 AM

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WASHINGTON (CBS News/CBSDC/AP) — Obama administration officials said a Dallas health care worker who handled a lab specimen from an Ebola-infected man from Liberia who died of the disease is on a Caribbean cruise ship where she has self-quarantined and is being monitored for any signs of infection.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement Friday that the woman had shown no signs of the disease and has been asymptomatic for 19 days.

The government is working to return the woman and her husband to the U.S. before the ship completes its cruise. The White House said the State Department was working to secure their transportation home.

CBS News reports the Carnival Cruise ship left Galveston, Texas, on Oct. 12.