Swine flu keeps cruise ship off Australia coast | Breaking Tweets

Swine flu keeps cruise ship off Australia coast

Posted by Craig Kanalley on 5/28/09 • Categorized as Health, Oceania, Transportation

Per News.com.au, the cruise ship Pacific Dawn has been ordered to stay at sea off the coast of Australia after three crew members were confirmed to have swine flu on Thursday.

ABC.net.au reports that 2,000 passengers are aboard the quarantined ship. Just days ago, 18 people aboard the same ship tested positive for swine flu after it docked Monday in Sydney.

Twitterers in Australia weighed in on the situation:

  1. Shellsey
    h2hcreations (Sydney, Australia) Swine now decides to show its ugly head in Australia … irresponsible actions of cruise ships docking in sydney 27 May 2009 from TweetDeck
  2. Asher Gillam
    ashergillam (Sydney, Australia) A cruise ship full of swine flu, sounds as fun as snakes on a plane.. 27 May 2009 from web
  3. Lauren Kallenbach
    Lollee7 (Melbourne, Australia) I feel sorry for all the people quarantined on the cruise ship in Sydney. Swine flu sux 28 May 2009 from web
  4. G
    gdunning (Sydney, Australia) Cruise ship Pacific Dawn crew have swine flu http://bit.ly/CayYi. Wouldn’t want to be on board that one. Mayhem! 28 May 2009 from TweetDeck
  5. Laurence Welch
    Loz62 (Sydney, Australia) The P&O cruise ship pacific swine has been ordered to stay out of sea.if the crew get the flu,who will control it? 28 May 2009 from Tweetie
  6. Garry Munro
    garrymunro (Sydney, Australia) Radio 2UE psychic Sharina went on cruise ship and now suspects she may have swine flu…why didn’t she predict this would happen? 28 May 2009 from TweetDeck

The Sydney Morning Herald published an article today on the mood of the cruise ship: “Testing times aboard flu ship, but band plays on.”

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  • CristianStar
    Lol... the swine flu media frenzy is getting out of control. The Swine Flu is not something that you can easily die from... There is a cure for it and a very good one and if you happen to get such a nasty flu, just report to your doctor and you will be fine. Ordering an entire ship to sail away just because of a nasty flu is crazy and that means Australia has no real doctors. They have toy doctors which have no real idea about what the swine flu is...
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