Health officials on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia have quarantined a cruise ship after discovering a case of measles on board, the country’s top doctor said Tuesday. Nearly 300 passengers are currently on the quarantined ship, and the confirmed case was found in a female crew member, NBC News reported. Health officials did not identify the cruise ship, but a sergeant with the St. Lucia Coast Guard told NBC that the vessel is “Freewinds,” the 440-foot boat owned by the Church of Scientology. The ship tracking website MarineTraffic.com shows a Freewinds – the only passenger ship it has on record by that name – docked at a St. Lucia port. This year, more than 700 people have been infected – the highest number of cases since measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.

Source: National Post May 02, 2019 12:33 UTC