Celebrity Cruises Sued For Injecting Passenger With HIV-Infected Blood
As if merely stepping foot onto any cruise ship—a floating petri dish wasteland of bacteria and viruses designed specifically to kill you—for even one second wasn’t enough of a living nightmare, now someone says they were given HIV during an emergency blood transfusion while on a Celebrity Cruises 7-day “vacation.” Via TMZ:
A Celebrity Cruises passenger says her medical emergency while onboard became an absolute nightmare for her, because the ship’s medics gave her a blood transfusion from someone who had HIV.
The woman was on a 7-day cruise that started Dec. 4, 2021, and on the 5th day she had to go to the medical center because she was suffering rectal bleeding … and it was really bad. In a new federal lawsuit, she says the doctors diagnosed a gastrointestinal hemorrhage and she would need an emergency blood transfusion just to survive.
According to the suit, obtained by TMZ, the medical staff solicited blood from passengers … announcing over the ship’s PA system that they needed Type A-negative blood. The woman says 4 passengers stepped up to donate blood, and she got the transfusion.
Sometime later, she’s not specific in the documents, the woman says she was diagnosed with HIV … and she believes she got it from the transfusion. In her suit, she calls out Celebrity Cruises doctors for not properly screening the donated blood before pumping it into her.
First of all, unless she was tested for HIV just prior to the cruise, how is she going to prove that she got HIV from the blood donation, and didn’t already have it? Second, did she ask if the blood was screened, and if not, wouldn’t that mean it’s her own fault for taking the transfusion? Third, rectal bleeding sounds like something that would happen on an Atlantis Events cruise, so this is a twist.
