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Editor, Senior Moderator
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 14, 2009 ? A crew member on board a cruise ship docked in the Bridgetown Port has been placed under ?strict quarantine? on the vessel after a panic created when he began exhibiting flu symptoms.
Authorities from the Ministries of Health and International Transport issued a statement yesterday, outlining the measures that were being taken, after reports began spreading that someone on board the Carnival Victory ? which arrived in the island yesterday morning with 3,000 passengers ? had been infected with swine flu and that the port had been shut down.
Medical personnel converged at the island?s main sea port, further fuelling speculation. But the ministries? joint statement sought to assure that the situation was under control.
?The Ministry of Health has already sent a sample swab to the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC) in Trinidad and Tobago for further testing to determine if it is the A (H1N1) virus,? it said.
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Authorities from the Ministries of Health and International Transport issued a statement yesterday, outlining the measures that were being taken, after reports began spreading that someone on board the Carnival Victory ? which arrived in the island yesterday morning with 3,000 passengers ? had been infected with swine flu and that the port had been shut down.
Medical personnel converged at the island?s main sea port, further fuelling speculation. But the ministries? joint statement sought to assure that the situation was under control.
?The Ministry of Health has already sent a sample swab to the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC) in Trinidad and Tobago for further testing to determine if it is the A (H1N1) virus,? it said.
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http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/14919.html