{"id":61277,"date":"2019-06-13T00:40:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T00:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=61277"},"modified":"2019-06-13T00:40:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T00:40:52","slug":"tourist-returns-nightmare-dominican-republic-trip-just-dont-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=61277","title":{"rendered":"Tourist returns from nightmare Dominican Republic trip: \u2018Just don\u2019t go\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida man who fell sick with a mystery illness during a Dominican Republic vacation is warning other travelers to avoid the country altogether,\u00a0 according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t go,\u201d said Jerry Martin, who went with his wife to Caribe Club Princess Beach Resort &amp; Spa in Punta Cana last month for their 40th wedding anniversary \u2014 before reports surfaced of American tourists dying at other hotels on the island,\u00a0according to news station WTVT. \u201cJust don\u2019t go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within days of arriving on May 17, Martin reportedly became severely sick with stomach pain while swimming in the pool.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cFire in the bottom of my stomach. Pain, excruciating pain,\u201d Martin told WTVT. \u201cWe were down at the pool when it hit, and I had to go up and just lay down and hold my stomach. It was on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin said he was unable to enjoy the rest of his week-long vacation because of the illness. He went to the emergency room once he returned home to Plant City, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Now three weeks later, Martin said he\u2019s still suffering from symptoms and visited the hospital five times. He claimed he has continued to lose weight and undergone tests to get to the bottom of his health woes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am scared, honestly,\u201d he told the news station. \u201cI told my wife we won\u2019t go out of the country again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A rep for the resort didn\u2019t immediately respond to request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Martin, who said he\u2019s not sure if his illness is linked to the deaths, said there\u2019s \u201cno way\u201d he would\u2019ve gone had he known about the terrifying reports out of the country, including four fatalities within two months.<\/p>\n\n<p>The day after Martin returned home, Miranda Schaup-Werner, 41, of Pennsylvania\u00a0succumbed to a heart attack\u00a0on May 25 at the Grand Bahia Principe Hotel in La Romana.<\/p>\n<p>Five days later, Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, of Maryland were\u00a0found dead at the same resort\u00a0from pulmonary edema and respiratory failure.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives\u00a0revealed earlier this week\u00a0that 67-year-old Robert Wallace from California died on April 11 in Punta Cana. He reportedly became ill after having a drink from the minibar at the Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino resort, around five miles from where Martin stayed with his wife.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida man who fell sick with a mystery illness during a Dominican Republic vacation is warning other travelers to avoid the country altogether,\u00a0 according to reports. \u201cDon\u2019t go,\u201d said Jerry Martin, who went with his wife to Caribe Club Princess Beach Resort &amp; Spa in Punta Cana last month for their 40th wedding anniversary &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[3817,3818,3819],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tourist returns from nightmare Dominican Republic trip: \u2018Just don\u2019t go\u2019 - TheFastFashion.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=61277\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tourist returns from nightmare Dominican Republic trip: \u2018Just don\u2019t go\u2019 - TheFastFashion.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Florida man who fell sick with a mystery illness during a Dominican Republic vacation is warning other travelers to avoid the country altogether,\u00a0 according to reports. \u201cDon\u2019t go,\u201d said Jerry Martin, who went with his wife to Caribe Club Princess Beach Resort &amp; 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