Cruise Ship Sickness 2017
During a voyage in early March a total of 182 passengers and crew fell ill.
Cruise ship sickness 2017. The ship named Norwegian Joy docked in San Pedro at 917am on Sunday and paramedics and firefighters were dispatched. As a result cruise passengers may experience foodborne illnesses caused by salmonella E. The percentage of passengers sickened on the cruises ranges from 33 percent on a Holland America ship to 228 percent on a Lindbald Expeditions ship.
The Centers for Disease Control who keeps track of virus outbreaks on cruise ships reports just 11 outbreaks for all of 2017. The seven-night cruise departed from Port Canaveral on Sunday and returns this weekend. Cruise Illness Virus Outbreaks.
Both cruise passengers and people ashore can then be infected by eating contaminated shellfish. The ship was on a 7-day Alaskan cruise from Seward AK to Vancouver BC Canada. July-August 2017 CDC reported on itinerary July 23-30 a Norovirus outbreak affected 138 passengers out of 2086 or 66 and 4 crew out of 803 or 05.
This occurred on the the fifth night of my cruise. Cynthia Braaf Passenger Illness Death Freedom of the Seas On November 12 2017 Cynthia Braaf 54 from Lauderhill Florida was cruising with her husband Humphrey aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Line ship Freedom of the. Here are some of the most common issues experienced by cruise ship passengers.
But AGE illness is relatively infrequent on cruise ships despite their notoriety says the CDC. The issue of eating oysters and other shellfish on cruise ships presents a double whammy. The total number of infected was 2535 of those 2450 passengers and 85 crew.
Its estimated about 12 million people cruise from North America in a given year. An outbreak is considered when 3 or passengers or crew report the same illness on a single cruise. PT on the return leg of a trip to the Panama Canal according to information from Ports America and Norwegian Cruise.
