500 Passengers Sick On Cruise Ship

Since reports on Wednesday the number of infected passengers and crew has increased from 167 to 277 affecting about 33 of the people aboard the ship.

500 passengers sick on cruise ship. To be honest for the last four days weve kind of felt like caged dogs said one passenger William Gleed adding. She worked aboard Princess Cruise Lines Diamond Princess a 952 vessel that can carry nearly 3000 passengers. A cruise ship will return to its Florida port one day early after hundreds of its guests and crew were struck by the bug norovirus.

Holland America said in a statement posted on its website that. In an email to TPG Torres confirmed that all of the passengers aboard the Oasis will receive full refunds of their cruise fare. The ship changed course from its Western Caribbean itinerary on Thursday after 277 people contracted norovirus a highly contagious gastrointestinal illness that causes.

The premise is akin to not driving on a highway because there are a few accidents. The number of passengers hit with a gastrointestinal illness on a Royal Caribbean International cruise ship has increased to nearly 500 a day after the company said 277 passengers on the Oasis of the Seas had initially fallen ill. 500 hit by Royal Caribbean cruise sickness - compensation latest A CRUISE ship norovirus outbreak saw 500 people catching the sickness bug the latest figures show.

You escape on a Caribbean cruise and suddenly everybody around you starts throwing up and has a bad case of diarrhea. Passengers on Royal Caribbeans Oasis of the Seas at one point the largest cruise ship in the world were reportedly not allowed to disembark when it reached Falmouth Jamaica on a scheduled seven-day cruise. Four passengers on a cruise ship bound for Florida have died the cruise line said.

Nearly 500 people are now sick on Royal Caribbean cruise ship More than 275 people had initially come down with a gastrointestinal illness a spokesman for Oasis of the Seas said. Source - Royal Caribbeans Oasis of the Seas cruise is planning to set sail again days after returning to port early after nearly 500 passengers on board became sick. More than 100 passengers on the ship are sick.

So outbreaks are found and reported more quickly on a cruise ship than on land. Why or why not. 23 2010 -- Its a travelers worst nightmare.