Latest Norovirus Outbreaks On Cruise Ships
With the Explorer of the Seas sailing back to New Jersey with almost 650 victims of norovirus related nausea and diarrhea Time magazine just published the article Cruise Out of Control.
Latest norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships. Controlling Norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships can be challenging. Why are acute gastrointestinal illnesses including noroviruses associated with cruise ships. The VWA had been notified of suspected norovirus outbreaks on 3 cruise ships operating in the Netherlands in the previous month.
How to avoid norovirus on cruise ships. Health officials track illness on cruise ships. Norovirus outbreak on cruise ships.
We searched the PubMed and Scopus scientific databases. CDC investigators traced the source of 10 cruise ship outbreaks back to a smoothie made with frozen raspberries. The Sun Princess had previously been struck by a norovirus outbreak on a cruise to Papua New Guinea.
In the latest incident approximately 200 passengers on the Sea Princess a cruise ship bound. We included eligible studies published from January 1990 to July 2013 that were written in English and described infectious episodes involving at least two passengers andor crewmembers on a commercial cruise ship. In the same week ProMED reported a viral gastroenteritis outbreak on a Dutch-owned cruise ship operating out of the United Kingdom.
The worst norovirus outbreak on a cruise ship. I feel quite strongly it was already on the ship when we got there and that was my biggest. Its proving difficult to keep track of gastroenteritis outbreaks on cruise ships these days with 6 outbreaks being reported in Australian waters within the last 12 months.
Norovirus on your ship can ruin a cruise. P O Cruises. In the latest incident 200 passengers fell ill with norovirus.
