Carnival Cruise Ship Hit
By Virus - 700 Taken Ill

From The Chicago Tribune
11-17-6

More than 700 people aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise have fallen ill with flu-like symptoms,
cruise line officials said. The outbreak, thought to be [caused by] a norovirus, struck people
aboard the Carnival Cruise Lines' Liberty, according to a statement issued by the Miami
company. The ship left Rome on Fri 3 Nov 2006 with about 2800 paying passengers and more than
1150 crew members. The boat is due in Ft. Lauderdale on Sun 19 Nov 2006.

"Within 24 hours of sailing, they had a lot of people sick. It has tapered off considerably
over the past couple days," said David Forney of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
in Atlanta. The U.S. agency flew 2 medical epidemiologists and an environmental health officer
to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, where the ship was in port on Thu 16 Nov 2006.

Noroviruses affect 23 million Americans annually, according to the CDC. A dozen incidents of
the illness have been reported on cruise ships so far in 2006. Spokeswoman Jennifer de la Cruz
said Carnival hasn't nailed down the outbreak's origin, though she noted 2 passengers
acknowledged getting sick in Rome prior to boarding. "We really ratcheted up cleaning and
sanitation to prevent the spread by common surfaces," de la Cruz said. Still, the closed
environment of a cruise ship is ripe for the spread of such infections.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi
-0611170213nov17,1,7622835.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

Noroviruses are enteric viruses present in the stool or vomit of infected people, and cause
severe diarrhea, nausea and vomiting (sometimes called "winter-vomiting disease"). These
viruses take their name from the town of Norwalk where a notable outbreak occurred. The virus
can be spread through the air. Most people recover with no lasting side effects. Severe
dehydration can be a problem, especially for the very young, the very old and people with
weakened immune systems. Prevention of transmission is best achieved by thorough hand-washing,
and rubbing hands for at least 24 seconds with soap and warm water, is the best way to prevent
the spread, especially after using the bathroom or [before] preparing food.

Epidemics occur frequently during winter months in situations where people from diverse
backgrounds congregate in close proximity such as on board cruise ships. This particular
outbreak is significant on account of its extent and duration.- Mod.CP

Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
Univ of West Indies

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" Death" <Death@yourdoor.net> wrote in message
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I had this little fucking bug last year - it is the worst - at the same time
your diarrhea is blowing
out while (hopefully) sitting on the toilet, you will get violent projectile
vomiting. This goes
on for 3-4 days and you think (or hope) you're gonna die!

This is also called the Cruise Ship Virus - the cruise ship industry REFUSES
to take
responsibility (in the article excerpt above, they blame "2 passengers ...
from Rome").
NONSENSE! This virus isn't being harbored in Rome - it IS harbored by the
filthy
hygeine and condition of the cruise ships and a number of their chronically
infected workers
(usually mud people from shitty countries like India and don't know how to
use toilet
paper, much less wash their scat-covered hands).

"Life" <Life@life.com> wrote in message

Oh, I have not heard mud-people in a coons,,,,,,,age.


The Carnival Cruise Lines ship Holiday, which has a capacity of 1,800 passengers, was home to
just 956 this week, according to the company. (Carnival Cruise Lines via Reuters file)

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- A FEMA contract to house Katrina evacuees on cruise ships, roundly
blasted as exorbitant government spending, is currently costing U.S. taxpayers substantially
more per person than some of its harshest critics estimated -- nearly $250 per person per
night, according to figures obtained by MSNBC.com.

At that rate, the Federal Emergency Management Agency would spend more than $175,000 for each
family of four that lives for six months aboard one of the three ships provided under the $236
million contract with Carnival Cruise Lines. Room service also is included in that price tag --
three meals a day and snacks.

FEMA says it cannot calculate the precise costs per person for the floating hotels because it
does not track occupancy of the ships in that fashion. The agency says it knows only how many
cabins are occupied on the Ecstasy and Sensation, docked in New Orleans, and the Holiday,
docked in Pascagoula, Miss., not how many people are living in each cabin.

"To be honest with you, I really don't know," FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews said in response
to repeated requests for a head count. Nor does anyone else in the federal government, said the
Washington, D.C.-based Andrews, who said she could not get the figures "unless I went on board
and knocked on doors."

" Death" <Death@yourdoor.net> wrote in message
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One can only imagine how much taxpayer money was blown on fried chicken,
chitlins and watermelon... but my sources do tell me that the niggers on
these
cruise ships were going nuts when their crack supply dried up for a while
(even
Mayor Nigger Nagin publicly admitted crack shortages were "a serious
problem").

After the trashing of the NiggerDome, one can only imagine how uninhabitable
those
cruise ships have become...

"Life" <Life@life.com> wrote in message
a hard time with the school system. It seems Texas actually wants the
New Orleans nigger to read and write.

It seems their careers as drug-dealer, pimp, ho and wel-fare queen are
put on hold until Texas kicks their worth-less black asses back into Louisiana.

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:18:11 -0600, " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net>
wrote:

Racism.

Well...that says a lot about you guys.

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
There's just no fooling you.

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
Again you think the names are worse than the deeds.
This is racism:

Approximately 34 million acts were committed in the U.S. in 1992--about 94,000 crimes daily.
This is a Justice Department estimate. We don't know the exact number, because many, if not
most, crimes are not reported. We do know, however, that the national crime rate-crimes per
capita-has tripled over the past 30 years, and at least 71 percent of all violent crimes
involve some kind of economic loss.

Distorted Statistics Prior to 1986, Hispanics were classified as a distinct and separate racial
group. Not anymore. The FBI and U.S. Census Bureau no longer distinguish between Hispanics (who
are actually Spanish speaking Indians for the most part) and Whites; their crimes are lumped
together in one ethnic pot. The 22,354,059 Hispanics living in the U.S. do not exist, at least
not in the ethnic sense when it comes to the FBI compiling criminal statistics for mainstream
and news organizations.

Included by the FBI as "WHITES" is not only Hispanics, but also West Asians, Jews, Middle
Easterners, North Africans, Iranians, Iraquis, Libyans, Palestinians, and refugees from the
former Soviet Union. The question that immediately comes to mind is: "Why would the FBI and the
U.S. Census Bureau classify persons of Hispanic origin as being white?" The answer might
surprise you.

The FBI and the U.S. Census Bureau, along with mainstream media purposely distort criminal
statistics and conveniently classify Mexican-Americans as white because they do not want the
American public to know the truth--that Blacks are responsible for committing the vast majority
of crimes here in the United States. For example, in 1993, there were 20,343 Americans
murdered: Blacks, who compromise 12 percent of the U.S. population, committed 11,686 or a
whopping 58 percent of those murders.

The black murder rate was 38.8 per 100,000. Based on their murder rate in 1986, Hispanics
committed an estimated 2,242 murders in 1993. This is 10.7 per 100,000. 76 percent of the U.S.
is White (European-American) and they committed only 29.5 percent of the murders. On the other
hand, Black and Hispanic minorities combined constitute 21 percent of the population, yet they
committed a staggering 68.7 percent of the murders in the U.S. during 1993. This means, on a
per capita basis, a Black person is 12.3 times as likely to commit murder as a White person.

Since this information is not deemed "politically correct" and would perhaps offend the black
segment of society, it is offset by falsely inflating the per capita basis for whites by
backhandedly including Hispanics and other ethnic groups.


Here are some more shocking statistics:

More than 1,600 Whites are murdered by Blacks each year.

Blacks murder Whites at 18 times the rate Whites murder Blacks.

About 1 million Whites were murdered, robbed, assaulted, or raped by Blacks in 1992.

In the last 30 years, 170 million violent and nonviolent crimes were committed by Blacks
against Whites in the U.S.

Blacks under 18 are more than 12 times more likely to be arrested for murder than Whites the
same age.

Some 90% of the victims of race crimes are Whites.

Blacks commit 7.5 times more violent interracial crimes than Whites, although they comprise
only one-seventh of the White population.

On a per-capita basis, blacks commit 50 times more violent crimes than Whites.


Some 27 million nonviolent crimes were committed in the U.S. in 1992 alone. 31% of the
robberies involved Black offenders and White victims; only 2% involved White offenders and
Black victims.

1.3 million of the 6.6 million violent crimes committed in the U.S. each year are interracial.

Between 1964 and 1994, more than 45,000 people were killed in interracial murders in the U.S.,
compared to 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam and 38,000 killed in Korea.

The above stats were collected by an Australian reporter, Neil Sheehan, who dug out
half-concealed U.S. crime figures for an article in the Sydney Morning Herald (May 2, 1995).
The contents of his article, he commented, could not possibly be published or discussed in the
U.S. mainstream media. One wonders how many Whites have to be killed by Blacks before the N.Y.
Times and Dan Rather break the conspiratorial silence about the number of White casualties in
the guerrilla war being waged against them by Blacks.

Paved With Good Intentions, a book by Jared Taylor, also studies crime statistics by race. It
must be stressed that Blacks make up only 12% of the population according to the 1990 U.S.
census (and Black males about 6%), but they commit a vastly disproportionate number of violent
crime. Mr. Taylor reveals: 1) 58% of all arrests for weapons violations are Blacks. 2) 46% of
all arrests for violent crimes are Blacks. 3) 73% of all "justified self-defense" killings are
committed by Blacks. 4) 60.5% of all Blacks are armed with some type of weapon at all times. 5)
98% of all youths arrested for gun fights in Atlanta are Blacks.


In 1989, the FBI reported the following:

A) Blacks commit 8 times more assaults than Whites. B) Blacks commit 9 times more rapes than
Whites. C) Blacks commit 14 times more murders than Whites. D) Blacks commit 19 times more
armed robberies. E) Black neighborhoods are 35 times more violent than White neighborhoods. F)
There were 629,000 interracial attacks committed in 1985 (the last year the FBI "chose" to
report this information). Some nine out of every ten were committed by Blacks against Whites.
G. Black males (6% of the population) make up 46% of the nation's prison population.

It can be seen that in only one category of crimes, driving under the influence, are Blacks
actually underrepresented, and even this is only by one percent. Perhaps this statistic can
best be explained by the fact that Blacks own fewer cars than do Whites percentage-wise. It can
further be seen that overall, Blacks are committing 2 1/2 times the amount of crimes
percentage-wise as their population in America and as far as violent crimes are concerned, they
are committing almost four times as much as their population percentage-wise. As far as murders
go, Blacks are committing almost five times as many as their population percentage-wise. Why
isn't this ever reported on the news? Furthermore, it must be pointed out once again that many
crimes go unsolved or are unreported, particularly those involving random acts. Therefore, the
number of crimes that Blacks and Hispanics are committing may actually be much higher.

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:33:25 -0600, " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net>
wrote:

Again--you seem to think that words are harmless.

They're not.

And not all speech is protected or "free" under US law.

For example: libel. Hate speech is another.

Incitement to riot.

While it is good to recognize if you have hate in your heart that is
rooted in irrationality and ignorance, it is not good to nurture and
coddle it. Let alone spew it.

Because it can lead to violence or incite others to violence.

I cannot imagine that you are that stupid not to understand that--but
then again, you're not likely to WANT to understant that.

George M. Carter

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net>
So I see, you could talk a person to "death"
and never say anything.

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:54:42 -0600, " Death" <Death@yourdoor.net>
wrote:

Once again, you run away from the truth.

That's OK. You know it. You will have to face it one day.

Perhaps before then you will see that the one suffering the MOST from
your racism and anti-gay hatred is YOU.

That your hatred is the disease.

Maybe a cure before you die? Unlikely, I realize.

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net>

" Death" <Death@yourdoor.net> wrote in message
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Racism is in the eye of the beholder - when niggers do it, its OK. When
crackers do it, it is racism... go figger.

If you want to create an organization for white people, then you are an
Aryan racist - when you want to create an organization for niggers,
well, that's just fucking fine.

"GMCarter" <fiar@verizon.net> wrote in message
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Ah yes, the land of the free and home of the politically correct.

So the fuck what - if niggers are ready to riot they'll find
an excuse.

Then off to jail they go - along with at least the other 25% of
the niggers, 70% of whom are raised without knowing who
their daddy be ...

"Life" <Life@life.com> wrote in message news:a50fe$4564ada9$4b588baf$7815@ALLTEL.NET...
A White station like oh.....BET?
A White group like the NAACP, oh that's the KKK isn't it, LOL.
An all White beauty pageant?

The phrase African American is racist to the whites
who relocated from Africa.

I find the ones who cry racist are the very ones that are racist.
They just forgot which side their (cracker) is buttered on.

Death wrote...
If it had been leased out as a gay cruise and 700 passengers contracted HIV in
the ship's sauna the media would be celebrating it, and instead of quarantining
the ship and tracking down the source of infection, the government would escort
it into harbor in parade fashion complete with fireworks and a brass band.


The neat thing is that chances are at least one sickened passenger was also HIV+
and that the norovirus incorporated traces of HIV DNA in the replication process,
and the resulting hybrid strain now enjoys protected civil rights status, making
it illegal for the CDC to make any attempt to contain future outbreaks.