Norovirus Cruise Ship

The Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas cruise ship is cutting its journey short after 475 passengers and crew members have been infected with a norovirus Royal Caribbean Cruises announced Thursday.

Norovirus cruise ship. One client asked me it safe to go on the cruise ship. Cruise ship staff send this report any time the ship is in the United States or within 15 days of arriving at a US. Controlling Norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships can be challenging.

About 1 in 5 cases of acute gastroenteritis which leads to diarrhea and vomiting is caused by norovirus. Only 1 of all cases of Norovirus occur on cruise ships. When 2 or more of the passengers or crew have gastrointestinal illness.

In the past 20 years there have been close to 20 confirmed norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships. Norovirus outbreaks can occur on cruise ships when people bring the virus on to the ship and pass it on to others. The ship falls within the purview of the Vessel Sanitation Program VSP.

About 1 in 5 cases of acute gastroenteritis which leads to diarrhea and vomiting is caused by norovirus. Incidents of norovirus or other gastrointestinal GI disease are quite rare on cruise ships. With cruise guests embarking and disembarking ships there is a chance new passenger arrivals may bring the virus onboard and the close living quarters can also increase the contact.

With cruise ship outbreaks regularly appearing in the news awareness of Norovirus -- an extremely common and highly contagious virus that causes gastroenteritis -- has been significantly raised. Cruise ship outbreaks are reported posted on the CDC website when the illness incident meets the following criteria. On this 10-night cruise 534 out of 3071 206 passengers or crew reported being ill.

The very same week two consecutive cruises on the same Royal Caribbean ship had similar outbreaks of norovirus affecting hundreds of passengers. Noro is not a Cruise ship illness. Persistence of virus despite sanitization onboard including introdu.