An extraordinary two-week quarantine of the Diamond Princess cruise ship ends Wednesday, with thousands of passengers and crew set to disembark over the next several days in the port of Yokohama, near Tokyo.
A growing number of scientists, however, say the ship served as an incubator for a worrying new virus from
China instead of a quarantine facility meant to prevent the worsening of an outbreak that has sickened tens of thousands.
In a possible sign of lax quarantine protocols, three Japanese health officials who helped in the quarantine checks on the ship were also infected.