Scientology ship quarantined in St. Lucia now under quarantine in Curacao – St. Lucia News Online

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The Hague (AFP) – The Dutch territory of Curacao acknowledged Saturday it would possibly well perchance carry out what is wished to forestall measles spreading from a Scientology cruise ship, after a crew member came down with the disease.

The Freewinds, which left the Caribbean island of St. Lucia on Friday, arrived support in its dwelling port of Curacao at around 9: 00 am (1300 GMT) Saturday, in accordance with myshiptracking.com.

The Curacao authorities acknowledged in an announcement that it would possibly well perchance “utilize all critical precautions to take care of the case of measles on board of the Freewinds,” at the side of vaccinations.

“An investigation will also be done to determine who will doubtless be allowed to transfer away the ship without (posing) a chance to the inhabitants of Curacao,” it acknowledged.

“It is crucial to to find all efforts to forestall a spread of this disease internationally.”

Dutch broadcaster NOS reported that three health officials had boarded the boat to glimpse these on board. Easiest of us in a position to point to that they’ve been vaccinated towards measles or had already had the disease would have the flexibility to transfer away the boat, its correspondent there reported.

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The Church of Scientology says the 440-foot (134-meter) vessel is extinct for spiritual retreats and is continuously basically basically basically based in Curacao.

The vessel had arrived in St Lucia from Curacao on Tuesday, when it was placed below quarantine by health authorities there on sage of of a measles patient, acknowledged to be a feminine crew member.

Fixed with NOS, the crew member concerned is a Danish nationwide, who arrived in Curacao from Amsterdam on April 17. It was handiest when the boat was at sea, on path to St Lucia, that a doctor discovered she had measles, their correspondent acknowledged.

The resurgence of the once-eradicated, highly contagious disease is linked to the rising anti-vaccine circulate in richer nations, which the World Well being Organization (WHO) has recognized as a foremost global health chance.

The authorities in Curacao nonetheless urged local of us now to not wretchedness, because the wretchedness of the disease spreading in this case was moderately low.

Several of us did alternatively consult with the cruise ship between April 22 and April 28 earlier than it situation waft for St Lucia and the authorities requested them to to find themselves recognized to health officials.

Officers acknowledged the Freewinds had travelled between Curacao, St Lucia and one other Dutch-held island, Aruba, loads of times towards the tip of April.

There were about 300 of us aboard the ship, in accordance with Saint Lucia authorities, which placed the vessel in quarantine. They acknowledged they supplied 100 doses of measles vaccine at no payment.

The Scientology church, founded by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard in 1953, did no longer acknowledge to requests for comment.

Its teachings carry out circuitously oppose vaccination, however followers utilize into consideration illness a signal of inner most failing and on the entire succor a long way from clinical interventions.

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