The Washington Post reported the nurse "may have” handled lab specimens from virus victim Thomas Eric Duncan, according to the US department of state.

Belize news reports identified the vessel as the 128,000-gt Carnival Magic (built 2011).

The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital worker and a partner boarded the ship on 12 October in Galveston.

Although the nurse was showing no symptoms of the disease, the US government was working with the cruise line to get the ship back to America as a precaution.

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