Norovirus On Cruise Ships 2017

We discovered several cruise ships with norovirus outbreaks you may not find on the CDCs Vessels Sanitation Inspection Report.

Norovirus on cruise ships 2017. Worst Cruise Lines for Norovirus in 2017. Incidents like these have reinforced an impression among observers of the cruise industry that gastroenteritis is an occupational hazard. For outbreak that most of cruise ship passengers are elderly people who might be more vulnerable to norovirus infection.

Norovirus is no fun. Andrew Winston Recently hundreds of passengers on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship were struck with norovirus which causes gastrointestinal upset that can quickly spoil. Yes crew members sanitize and clean all public areas but if they knew about the first case their efforts will be doubled and norovirus would not be able to spread.

So norovirus spread among cruise guests very fast because childs sickness wasnt reported. The ship is completing the final leg of a two-week round trip between Brisbane and New Zealand. We investigated an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis that was caused by norovirus GII that occurred on a cruise ship sailing on a four-day voyage along the Yangtze River from Hubei Province to Chongqing Municipality China April 2017.

Outbreak of Acute Gastroenteritis Caused by Norovirus Genogroup II Attributed to Contaminated Cold Dishes on a Cruise Ship in Chongqing China 2017 Int J Environ Res Public Health. The main purpose of isolation is to avoid public vomiting and. As has been the case since at least 1994 the vast majority of outbreaks on cruise ships for which a cause is determined involve norovirus.

A different cruise line has suffered through 18 cases of GI sicknesses reported to the CDC since 2010. On cruise ships one issue related to the norovirus outbreaks is the close proximity of people due to shared living quarters dining areas and facilities which creates favourable conditions for the occurrence of new outbreaks. There were two cruises but the crew remained the same between cruises.

Norovirus outbreaks caused by the same strain of virus occurred in both cruises. On cruise ships CDC 2017. A very recent ship had almost 10 of the pax get sick.