Celebrity Offers Travel Agents Free Measles Vaccination On EquinoxPre Maiden Voyage!

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

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.

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) 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

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.