Clia UK & Ireland has issued a warning notice to member cruise lines over Ebola, with recommendations that lines “deny boarding” to crew or passengers travelling from countries at risk.
It comes after news of ‘panic’ on a Carnival Cruise Lines voyage when it emerged that one of its passengers was a health worker who had handled specimens from the US’s first confirmed Ebola patient.
The ship was prevented from calling at Belize and Mexico, and the passenger placed herself into voluntary isolation, although she passed a blood test and was allowed to leave with passengers when the ship docked back in Texas on Monday.
