Falkland Islands: Cancellation of the visit of Cruise Vessel Start Princess
Due to a reported outbreak of norovirus on the cruise vessel Star Princess, following agreed protocols, the Chief Medical Officer took the difficult decision not to allow the vessel to land in the Falkland Islands as scheduled. The vessel had been due to arrive in Stanley at 8am on the 14th January.
The King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Stanley were informed of the problem on the afternoon of the 13th of January, and communicated the decision that evening following consultation with both the ship’s doctor and a consultant microbiologist in the UK.
This difficult decision was not been taken lightly, and was made in the wider interests of the public and tourism industry. Norovirus is highly infectious, and causes potentially severe sickness and diarrhoea. It is spread easily by direct contact, touching contaminated surfaces, and through inhalation. The virus has become a serious issue in hospitals and vessels around the world and can be very serious in the elderly and the very young. An outbreak in the Falkland Islands would put enormous pressure on our limited medical resources, and jeopardise other scheduled cruise visits.
The Falkland Islands Government wish those affected a speedy recovery and an enjoyable onward journey, and hope to be able to welcome you to our beautiful home and country in the future.
This is only the second occasion that a tour vessel has ever had to be turned away from the Falkland Islands, with over 100 cruise visits welcomed every year.
In consultation with the cruise operator and local agent, a post-incident review is to take place.
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OMG……
What has happened to the once hardy people of Malvinas?
The new generation seems to be afraid of everything………….. Even the trots.
How decadent :-)
Long Live the Falklands.
This colony is totally unprepared for a major emergency.
May be they are waiting for another disaster like yesterday in Europe.
RAF rescue helicopter at your service,and if you can wait, by royal appointment
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15682242
Yes. In the story, when they said the following:
”An outbreak in the Falkland Islands would put enormous pressure on our limited medical resources”
Check out Ushuaia- a a cruise ship called there ayear or two ago with this virus onboard and did not declare it until it was leaving! Result a few days later Ushuaia hospitals and public health services were swamped by the local folk with bug - its voilent at both ends Think- very unpleasant I believe.
this is more than ridiculous and pointless to say this stupid comments ,completely ridiculous when 33 countries and Caribbeans to oppose the continuation of this stupid brits colony, just 400 miles from Argentina shores!
Please Mecopress finish with these craps and ridiculous comments!!!
thank you for reinforcing my point as to why I pity the Argentine people.
”Prevention is always better than cure” says Kelper Squatterette Saphira at (2)
”Best form of Treatment is Prevention” says Kiwi-Kelper Papamoa at (3)
”Its a silly bugger who knowingly goes and invites one (disaster) to happen” says Kelper Squatter Islander1 at (11)
Well lads and lasses…
I have scary news for you…
There are lots of scary, highly contagious deadly diseases in the outside world……
Maybe you should apply a 40 days quarantine for any tourist wishing to visit Malvinas….
Better safe than sorry!
PS:
Kiwisarg………….; for your kind info:
The Malvinas Islands are only 185 nautical miles (equivalent to 213 miles or 342 kilometers) from the nearest Argentinean shore.
Kiwisarg………….; for your kind info:
The Malvinas Islands are only 185 nautical miles (equivalent to 213 miles or 342 kilometers) from the nearest Argentinean shore.
Isla Martín García is an Argentine island off the Río de la Plata coast of Uruguay. The enclave island is within the boundaries of Uruguayan waters;
If the female is only married to the squatter then she is the squatter's wife, if her name is on the title than she is the squatter...its that simple...
Well you did not prevent the Falklands war,
So it took the British, to cure it,
Once again the witted, [is out]
mmmm
.
There is now.........:
www.google.it/#hl=da&cp=12&gs_id=1t&xhr=t&q=squatterette&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=squatterette&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=b87e7cbaa5595a23&biw=1024&bih=512
:-)
'20 Weeks + Ultrasound | The Little Squatter Chronicles
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17 Nov 2008 – ... that we're pretty sure it's a girl, and since it coincides with what the private ultrasound doctor said, we're going with a little squatterette. ...
Falkland Islands: Cancellation of the visit of Cruise Vessel Start ...
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9 hours ago – 15 Think (#) Jan 14th, 2012 - 10:23 pm Report abuse: TWIMC ”Prevention is always better than cure” says Kelper Squatterette Saphira at (2) ...
Can the Falkland Islands achieve economic diversification borne ...
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26 Oct 2011 – ... get ample opportrunities to exercise that “Famous British Stiff Upper Lip” in the next many years, my dear British Squatters and Squatterettes. ...
Argentina imposes stricter foreign exchange rules to contain capital ...
en.mercopress.com/.../argentina-imposes-stricter-f...
28 Oct 2011 – ... post #62“Can the Falklands diversify etc etc”, you will find that you used the Danish edition of Google to find the explanation of “squatterette”. ...
Chilean mayor trip to the 'Falklands' causes major uproar in Tierra ...
en.mercopress.com/.../chilean-mayor-trip-to-the-f
17 Sep 2011 – 5) You are indeed a “Squatterette”,............. a sojourning one. Nice Sunday to .... 5) Definitely not a squatterette, l have a legal title to my home. ...(HAHAHA)
en.mercopress.com/.../argentina-had-no-chance-in.
29 Oct 2011 – But then, a certain lazy Squatterette didn't dare to disavow Mr. Justin
en.mercopress.com/.../argentina-recalls-1833-mal... - Oversæt denne side
3 Jan 2012 – Not Sweden this year, my dear Squatterette…''
That word has as much credibility as the RG claim to the falklands......
A figment of that fevered imagination of yours Thicko.....
Dear Falkland Islands Government ...
Please,
Ask you....
Beg you....
Plead you....
Implore you....
say the truth about your status....Malvinas is NOT a country...is only a COLONY from United Kingdom and sized by force in military way from Argentina in 1833.
Dont take my word...PLEASE ask UN or C-24 Comitte of Descolonization your REAL status on the eyes of the cilivized world.
Please....
Thank you.
www.un.org
Think - you'll never find your perfect woman ! I'd put money on it, if you'd take the bette!
The title of Resolution 1514 (XV) is
Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.
So the UN does not think that being a colony is incompatible with being a country. But the Falklands are not a colony.
Don´t fool yourselves, Malvinas is a colony of UK sized by force in military way from Argentina (their legal owners) in 1833.
don´t assume with your biased interpretaion.....show a single evidence from UN and C-24 that say explicitly that Mavinas is a country.
isladers neither are is distinct peoples from the metropolis that colonize that place in 1833....indeed they´re british citizen, thats a fact.....again don´t fool yourselves.
This madness situation and position of UK is childish and without logic....only add more fans to support to Argentine cause, and that is a FACT too.
I know, I know………..
But………..
If I did find one that fitted the criteria of post (23), I would seriously consider lifting that poor soul out from its dejecteded Squatterette status and making an honest (Argentinean) Woman out of her …...............…;-)
No one here is denying that. They are British citizens and will stay that way until they decide not be to British citizens.
“Malvinas is not a country nor recognized legally”
They don't care much. There recognition is there own, They live there lives and you sit on the other side crying about it.
Sadly for you, whatever you think of this as a decision or its implications, that is for us to decide and has absoluteley nothing to do with you.
As for you sofa, you might not recognise us as a country, but the stamp in Think's passport tells another story. And you can think what you like. Including that you are a 'civilized country'.
No stamps or passports needed for us arriving in those beautiful Grumman Albatross, young lass.
www.airliners.net/photo/Argentina---Air/Grumman-HU-16B-Albatross/0429085/M/
Ask your elders if you don't believe me.....................
That “technology kit out of the 1940s” as a certain turnip calls it, certainly served to medevac quite a few Kelpers from Malvinas to the Continent.
Kelpers that lived on to father the current generation of Kelpers……………
People from MERCOPRESS.
That’s the title,
Judging by the response,
It seems to be an outbreak of Argies indoctrination,
Just as well it was stopped then,
.
By the way, those “generous” , more like half-hearted attempts at a hearts and Indus game, were in the 1970s, when the Grummans had already reached the end of their life. I remember bumping into Kelpers in Comorodoro Rivadavia hotels in those days. I'm really surprised you are still relying on clapped out old birds like those today. Then again, cutting edge in the Argie airforces is French kit out of the 1960s....
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086974/Royal-Navy-spends-50bn-new-fighter-jets-land-aircraft-carriers.html
quick ! get those Harriers back....
''You cannot differenciate from the colonial power as you are part of it and hence not entitled to self determine at all''
Yes we can, and we do, and you clearly don't know anything about it at all.
And guess what? You don't get to decide about our rights.
If you got your hands on the Falklands, we would prove it to the UN. We would be under alien subjugation and domination. That's why you'll never win.
Alejo.
The UN has never said only those territories under alien subjugation, domination and exploitation are entitled to self determination.
Boy this man is clever,
Sadly it’s about 3 years out of date,
Keep trying,
Trust us,,
When the carrier floats out to sea, it WILL have planes on it,
.
You cannot have what you never owned,
The last time I spoke to NOAH , I said unto him, why did you let the brits on first Noah,
He said unto me, Briton, if I had let the Argies on first, they would have claimed my ship, and no one else would have got on,
now you know why I left them till last,
and that legacy will always remain with them [last]
just a watering thought .
But days before the Ship was in Punta Arenas, Chile, as well as Usuhaia, Argentina and despite having more sick on board ..... none of the two countries had difficulties.
Star Princes is a ship with Bahamas flag, an independient state that belongs to British Commonwealth of Nations.
Numbers when they arrived to Malvinas Islands:
- Ship's passengers: 3600 souls
- Temporary sick patients: 20 souls
- Percentage of the population of the Ship: 0.5%
What the captain of the Ship said when FIG denied docking ?
“Cruise captain looked surprised and said it was an unprecedented decision and considered erroneous by the low number of cases with the disease and did not meet international standards for the poor number of patients board ”.
What FIG said ??
“ Falkland Islands would put enormous pressure on our limited medical resources...”
20 individuals with diarrhoea (that perhaps would not even have stepped down in Malvinas) could collapse your medical system ??
Simple Amazing....those brits are really amazing.
Simple Amazing....those brits are really amazing
Amazing
At least 10 indigenous children have died from malnutrition in north-west Argentina this year. How could this be happening in one of the world's biggest food-exporting countries? BBC Mundo's Vladimir Hernandez travelled to the indigenous Wichi community in a remote part of Salta to find out.
Dying from hunger in food-exporting Argentina
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12973543
enough said we think .
www.clarin.com/politica/Gobierno-descender-turistas-argentinos-Malvinas_0_628737277.html
All for the standard qurentining of a ship
leaving aside the hilarity behind argentina's hypocrisy, I honestly hope that the islanders take note of just how easy it is to make argentines beg for mercy. if preventing a ship from docking makes them keel, imagine how announcing the repatriation of the remains of all the argentine soldiers would go down.
49 a horrific story similar in.many ways to the old people in English cities dying from the cold.
10.people died from food exporting Argentina.When your occupiers controlled Ireland in 1847 A million Irish died while food was being exported eveey day.
Grow up O gara.
Enjoy it paddy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJRyft6ZYIk&feature=related
Looks like the argies learnt well from their German guest the Angel of Death
GlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories company was fined 400.000 Pesos (approx 90.000 dollars) by Judge Marcelo Aguinsky following a report issued by the National Administration of Medicine, Food and Technology (ANMAT) for the killing of 14 babies during illegal lab vaccine trials conducted between 2007 and 2008.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LizzieVanZyl.jpg
falklandsnews.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/falkland-islands-hostile-to-tourists-says-timerman/
Wellcome to Lorton's Club then.
Looks like no-one is taking any notice of you, bradco.
We don't recognise the C-24, anyway.
We don't care if you think we are a people or not.
We don't really care for you at all.
ln fact we don't even care that we don't care!
We know what & where we are.
Prove that Argentina is a country,
But then, we don't care about that, either♥
glaxo is a global pharmaceutical laboratory HEADQUARTERED in London UK and their mission “is to improve the quality of human life” (cof, cof)
It happens that this laboratories cant experiment in Europe or USA with new vaccines, so they (Glaxo) pay to doctors of Arg, for example 8.000 $ for every kid with whom they can experiment. Its all a corruption, from the doctors, sanitary authorities that make that they dont know and the laboratory of Arg and yes of its central house in London too. These vaccines are invented there in UK.
www.buenosairesherald.com/article/88922/gsk-lab-fined-over-vaccine-tests-that-killed-14--babies
if doesnt appear google it
So was Penicillin, its the Argies who experiment on their poor kids
experiment with your own kids dont bother us
Glaxo is not an argentinian laboratory is a filial of a global laboratory headquartered in London. they do what london says: experiment with kids because here we cant.
that they would need goverment permmision to do so,
just a thought .
I don't think anyone here really understands the Glaxo story properly. It was Glaxo themeslves who highlighted the irregularities with recruiting patients as soon as they noticed them. It was the two Argetinian doctors who got fined for not adhering to the correct protocols and Glaxo got fined along with them purely because they have to take ultimate responsibility as the company funding the study.
There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the study itself - in fact, it is still carrying on with the full endorsement of the Argentinian authorities. At present, there is no connection whatsoever between the 12 deaths of babies and the use of the vaccine. That said, it is possible that they may find an association in some cases. However, it should not be forgotten that 2 million babies die of pneumonia each year and this more than offsets any slight risk attributable to the vaccine.
So, these fines are mainly for irregular paperwork and nothing to do with the trials being unethical or the vaccine being unsafe.
You wouldn't do this study in the UK or Europe, because babies are at a much lower risk of pneumonia, so there is less need to vaccinate them. Argentina doesn't have the highest risk in the world, but it's higher than all of Europe and North America (and Chile, Bolivia and Peru) and has the infrastructure to make such a study feasible. I imagine that the risk is much higher among the poorer communities in Argentina.
Laboratory trials on human beings are not legalized in Argentina
So if Glaxo set a protocol at an argentinian hospital and recruited several doctors working there for experimenting with babies is making sth illegal. Doctors here did their part of illegacy too.
according to the article its absolutely clear.
Of course it's not illegal to carry out human clinical trials in Argentina. Hundreds of these trials get carried out in Argentina just like they do in other countries. In fact, only yesterday I wrote a clincial paper describing the results of a recent clincial study that included patients in Argentina. All clincial trials in Argentina have to conform to local national laws and have to be approved by ANMAT and each institution where they get carried out. There's nothing underhand going on - Glaxo have not somehow sneeked in some illegal experiment under the noses of the authorities.
You really don't know what you are talking about. ANMAT are the organisation that approved the study in the first place (as they do with all clincial studies in Argentina) and it was Glaxo who informed them of the irregularities!
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