A Church of Scientology cruise ship has been quarantine with hundreds of people on display board after health official became aware that one of them was infect with measles .
The cruise ship , which is own by the church service and used as a religious hideaway , was put to be quarantined in the port wine of St Lucia in the Carribean on Monday , NBC News reports . A female member of the crew has a sustain fount of the highly contractable computer virus , while other passengers and crowd members are being monitored by the ship ’s physician .
" As per the public health act [ … ] and discussions with extraneous agencies we thought it prudent that we quarantine the ship . No one was allowed to leave the ship . The crowd and passenger on board were not allowed to leave alone , " Dr Merlene Fredericks James , the Caribbean nation ’s master medical officer , saidin a video statementon Tuesday .
She conk on to limn that there are outbreaks all over the US because mass have not been taking the usable vaccine , and the measure was take to stop the spread to St Lucia , which has beenmeasles - free since 1990 .
" Measles , as we know , is a highly infectious disease . One septic person can easily taint others through cough … so because of the risk of likely contagion , not just from the measles suit but from other individual who may be on this boat , we thought it prudent not to allow anyone to disembark , " Dr Fredericks James said .
" The Ministry of Health is presently investigating the situation . "
Health officials declined to name the ship , but the coast guard told NBC that it was notorious Scientology ship theFreewinds , where Tom Cruise drop his forty-second birthday .
" TheFreewindsis a very special place , " the Church of Scientologywrite on their website . " It is the one post a Scientologist may go and be sure he will be able to devote himself only to his religious practice and in the company of people who share his spiritual consignment and lookout on aliveness in oecumenical . "
We have a feeling a measles outbreak might distract from that passably .
The Department of Health and Wellnessrevealed in an update on Thursdaythat the crew and passengers are unchanging and being observed by the ship ’s doctor , as " continued surveillance is necessary as the incubation full stop for measles ranges from 10 to 12 days before symptoms in exposed persons come about . " The physician has quest 100 doses of the morbilli vaccine , which the Department of Health has given to the crew at no price .
CNN reportsthat the ship has likely now left St Lucia , still with all the quarantined rider on board . It ’s potential that the ship will lead to its home port wine of Curaçao , though this has not been sustain .
