A Texas healthcare worker is now in voluntary isolation on board a cruise ship.

The worker works at the the Dallas hospital where two nurses contracted Ebola. The individual, who so far, is showing no symptoms handled body fluids belonging to Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died of Ebola.

Belize yesterday denied the US permission to use a local airport to send the passenger back to the States.

Prime Minister Dean Barrow explained decision. 

"If it had been at all possible to do this thing in a way that could absolutely have eliminated any possibility of any risk to Belizeans, I would have been willing. The fact is, after the most anxious consideration, I concluded that the original position had to stand because it could not, in the circumstances, be possible to do what the Americans were asking."

The ship is due to return to Texas on Sunday.

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