Cruise Bruise Blog
May 26, 2009
May 26, 2009
Cruise Ship Out Of U.S. Responsible For Bringing Swine Flu To Another Nation
For the second time this month, a cruise ship sailing out of an American city is responsible for bringing the first case of H1N1 Swine Flu to another nation. Once again, the media and politicians refuse to name the ship involved.
This means once again we have to use the process of elimation to figure out what cruise ship it might be.
Authorities in Puerto Rico said that they got their first case of H1N1 when a passenger, a 39-year-old man had returned home after a 7-night eastern Caribbean cruise that embarked on May 10 and returned on May 17.
Only three ships match that criteria, Carnival Legend out of Tampa, Florida, Carnival Conquest out of Galveston, Texas and RCCI Freedom Of The Seas out of Port Canaveral, Florida.
Earlier this month, a doctor on a cruise ship in New York City nobody would name brought the first case of Swine Flu to Taiwan.
May 26, 2009
Man Has Gone Overboard On Carnival Fantasy
The United States Coast Guard says they have been notified that Bruce O'Krepki, 18, is missing from the Carnival Cruise Line's Fantasy.
Carnival Fantasy has a large group of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Hammond, Louisiana celebrating their high school graduation aboard.
USCG Petty Officer Robert Simpson in Miami says the USCG was notified about 2145 hours on Sunday night that that the missing from Fantasy as the ship was was making her way from New Orleans to Key West.
Crews are searching the waters off the Florida coast for a teenager missing off a cruise ship sailing from New Orleans.
"The search has been going on through the night, and it's continuing through the day," said Simpson. The full story is here
Earlier in this same cruise, Cruise Bruise reported a woman had been medevaced off Carnival Fantasy.
May 26, 2009
Pacific Dawn Child Passengers Arrive In Port With Swine Flu
When the P&O Cruises' Pacific Dawn arrived in Sydney, Australia yesterday two children aboard tested positive for H1N1 Swine Flu.
'These two children were treated with Tamiflu and isolated until they're symptom-free for 24 hours,' Dr Chant said in a statement.
Another 130 passengers were quarantined with symptoms of respiratory illness during the examination of the ship, which delayed the ship for seven hours.
The remaining 1800 disembarking passengers were asked to stay at home or in their hotels for up to seven days.
Reports say the ship embarked not only with a boat-load for new passengers, but with a new crew as well.
'A New South Wales Health public health expert will be traveling with the Pacific Dawn (on the new cruise) to Queensland to monitor the situation,' Dr Chant said.
Also on Monday, test results for a nine-year-old male who arrived in Sydney on Sunday returned positive for swine flu.
The boy and his parents, who had been traveling through the US and Canada, have been put on Tamiflu and quarantined.
Later the government announced that 13 more passengers were taken to a hospital emergency room and admitted.
May 26, 2009
Woman Gets Medevac Off Norwegian Majesty Due To Eye Injury
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) were called to medevac a woman off the Norwegian Dawn on Sunday after she reportedly suffered an eye injury during her cruise.
Norwegian Dawn was in the Chesapeake Bay of Virginia when the call went out.
Eileen Mummaugh, 76 was picked up by a USCG utility boat and transported her to waiting an Anne Arundel County EMS ambulance. She was then transported by ambulance to John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital is rated very high nationally in the U.S. for medical care. For the 18th consecutive time, John Hopkins earned the top spot in U.S.News & World Report’s annual rankings of American hospitals, placing first in three medical specialties and very high in twelve others.
Thirteen specialities at John Hopkins rated in the top three for the country. The facility was rated number one for Ear, Nose & Throat (Otolaryngology), Rheumatology and Urology.
They were rated number two for Geriatrics, Gynecology, Neurology & Neurosurgery
Ophthalmology (Wilmer Eye Institute) and Psychiatry. This means Eileen Mummaugh will get excellent care for her eye injury.
