Blood sample taken from Dallas lab worker on cruise ship

GALVESTON, TX (KTRK) -- The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed a crew collected a blood sample from a Dallas lab worker on Carnival Magic.

The vessel is expected in Galveston sometime tomorrow morning. Nearly 6,000 people are on board but one passenger is a lab worker who handled Thomas Eric Duncan's lab specimens.

She is not showing any symptoms of Ebola and hasn't in the last 20 days. But she has been in isolation on board that cruise ship out of an abundance of caution.

The Galveston County health district is waiting for the cruise liner to arrive. They are trying to work out a plan on what they will do but these blood test results will determine their course of action. Whether it's to escort that lab worker off with a medical team or just let her go straight to her car and leave.

"What I think they need to do is let everyone get off the ship and then bring her off the ship," said one Galveston resident.

"I think it's really being blow up. I think we have no worries what so ever," said Galveston resident Tammy Gutierrez.

What did arrive today in Galveston is the medical waste from that Dallas hospital where three Ebola patients were being treated. That waste was transported to UTMB Galveston and will be incinerated today.

They transferred the blood sample to another aircraft and was taken to Austin for testing. The result from that passenger's blood sample is expected by Sunday morning.