Sometimes life is a circus:
A cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 passengers was 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 handled fluids from a man dying of Ebola.
The lab tech, who worked at the Dallas hospital where Thomas Eric Duncan died, set sail from Galveston, Texas, on Sunday aboard the 1,000-foot Carnival Magic.
The woman — who has 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.
Hey maybe we’re all gonna die!
I think not.
If the disease and as virulent is as deadly as some think, then after all these years why aren’t there more cases?
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“If the disease is as virulent and deadly as some think, then after all these years why aren’t there more cases?”
Viruses mutate constantly, often becoming more virulent, like the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.