The evening of April 14th, the value is processed in a document Xiongdian pan night, going to breathe a sigh of relief when a hasty phone rang, "German ship MSC ROMA (Mediterranean Rome) a crew suspected of suffering from chickenpox. The vessel is scheduled to dock at MCT container terminal at 7:30 tomorrow morning with a total of 22 foreign crew members." "Sick crew 12 days, fever and rash symptoms, and has difficulty in breathing and other complications."
Chicken pox is spread through respiratory tract, contact, and other routes. It is highly contagious and can cause epidemic in small areas. In view of the container liner relatively closed environment, extremely easy to cause the spread of the epidemic, Shenzhen, inspection and Quarantine Bureau immediately made the following arrangements: one is for the ship to do protective measures, the crew will be isolated to the crew Clinic; two is to close contact with the implementation of temperature monitoring, the investigation is not similar symptoms; three is due to patient is breathing complications such as difficulty, that ship's doctor gave a dose of antibiotics to maintain stable vital signs; the four is the implementation of ship berthing and quarantine, without quarantine, does not allow any person.