Cruise Ship Sickness 2017
This was a 7 night Southern Caribbean cruise aboard Royal Caribbeans Adventure of the Seas for those of you just joining me.
Cruise ship sickness 2017. The mighty Ovation of the Seas which carries more than 5800 had been at sea for 14 days after a trip to Singapore when 195 passengers reported suffering from gastrointestinal illness. Cruise Line Ship CDC report link. During a voyage in early March a total of 182 passengers and crew fell ill.
When 2 or more of the passengers or crew have gastrointestinal illness. Both cruise passengers and people ashore can then be infected by eating contaminated shellfish. Passengers were apparently not allowed to disembark in Falmouth.
The issue of eating oysters and other shellfish on cruise ships presents a double whammy. The Norwegian Joy cruise ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles around 6 am. The total number of infected was 2535 of those 2450 passengers and 85 crew.
PT on the return leg of a trip to the Panama Canal according to information from Ports America and Norwegian Cruise. Last year alone there were 14 instances in which a cruise ship failed a health inspection. But AGE illness is relatively infrequent on cruise ships despite their notoriety says the CDC.
Robert Bever Cruise Passenger Mexico Excursion Bus Death. The Centers for Disease Control who keeps track of virus outbreaks on cruise ships reports just 11 outbreaks for all of 2017. The article mentions that the cruise ship will skip its scheduled stop in Tortola British Virgin Islands and head straight back to the US.
As a result cruise passengers may experience foodborne illnesses caused by salmonella E. The ship was on a 7-day Alaskan cruise from Seward AK to Vancouver BC Canada. People often associate cruise ships with Acute Gastroenteritis AGE related illnesses.
