On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:56:46 +0200, peter
wrote:
Jack Hamilton wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:17:43 +0200, peter
wrote:
To Whom It May Concern:
We received this information/press release from the trades/USA Today and
thought it may be of interest to this newsgroup as well.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/cruis...=68494750.blog
They're offering immunizations to crew members, not to travel agents.
This implies that crew members are not ordinarily required to be
immunized against common infectious diseases. That is not a good
thing, in my opinion.
The immunization was offered to 2100 people (both crew and passengers,
which were all travel agents)
That must have come from a different article, not the one whose URL is
shown above - it says only that "the company has ordered 1,000 doses
of measles vaccine for the ship's crew". Nothing about travel agents.
I hope most travel agents are current on their vaccinations as well,
since they are in frequent contact with the public.
but apparently only 3 accepted as they had
not had the vaccine before or weren't sure. If that's correct your
concern is still appropriate.
http://tinyurl.com/l252sv
This article does mention passengers.
Three out of several thousand - at least that's few enough that the
ship as a whole would have herd immunity.