Stomach Flu On Cruise Ships

CDC About 5 percent of the ships passengers became sick.

Stomach flu on cruise ships. Why are acute gastrointestinal illnesses including noroviruses associated with cruise ships. All-aged friendly cruise with 40 facilities and various activities. First outbreaks can occur any time you have a group of people living together in a.

Once an infected person gets onboard a ship the. It seems the chances of contracting the stomach flu or acute gastroenteritis while on a cruise ship are actually pretty rare and getting rarer with time. Norovirus better known as the stomach flu was the cause of two of.

In 2010 when I was 16 I came down with the stomach flu while on board Royal Caribbeans Oasis of the Seas with my family. Learn more about norovirus. Someone who has the stomach flu can be contagious for a few days up to 14 days or longer.

Book by 18 Oct. The virus causes your stomach or intestines or both to get inflamed acute gastroenteritis. Norovirus aka winter vomiting disease aka 24-hour stomach flu.

There are two reasons stomach flu seems to crop up so often on cruises Rupp said. Yet cruise ships some of which make people ill are a cash-and-carry-business that remains popular despite real risk. Norovirus is acute gastroenteritis which generates symptoms such as vomiting diarrhea and stomach pain.

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