Illness On Cruise Ships 2015

Hundreds of people aboard two cruise ships in the Caribbean fell ill due to norovirus the latest instances in which the stomach bug has thwarted vacationers at sea.

Illness on cruise ships 2015. The Star Princess in 2012. Symptoms of that highly contagious virus include nausea diarrhea vomiting abdominal pain along with. Katy Rourke 25 from Broughty Ferry Dundee worked as a crew member aboard P O Cruises Australia ships.

The CDC reported 178 of 1948 passengers 914 and 9 of 786 crew 115 have reported ill with gastrointestinal illnessTwo Vessel Sanitation Program environmental health officers boarded the ship in Falmouth Jamaica on January 30 2015 to conduct an epidemiological investigation an environmental health assessment and evaluate the outbreak and response activitiesThe ship was on a 10 day cruise. Norovirus a stomach bug struck dozens of passengers aboard the Star Princess cruise ship. The Star Princess is one of nine cruise ships in 2015 to have reported outbreaks of gastrointestinal illnesses to the CDC.

On cruises lasting 315 days and having at least 100 passengers diarrhoeal disease outbreaks investigated by the Centers for Disease Control decreased from 81 to 30 per 10 million passenger days between 197579 and. About 182 passengers fell ill on the Explorer of the Seas which. Last April more than 100 passengers on the same ship fell sick to the same gastrointestinal virus.

Pathogens ie norovirus can be introduced into the cruise ship environment by ill passengers during embarkation 1415. When the programme began none of the cruise ships passed periodic VSP sanitation inspections. Separately on board the Royal Caribbean ship Legend of the Seas 114 of the ships 1763 passengers 65 came down with an unknown gastrointestinal illness.

For international cruise ships porting in the United States from 2010 through 2015 816 outbreaks of norovirus infections occurred each year. In 2015 the number of reported illness outbreaks on cruise ships was 23. A viral bug is the likely cause of an outbreak of gastroenteritis on a luxury cruise liner New South Wales health authorities say.

Since the start of 2015 the CDC has recorded five outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness aboard cruise ships including the latest outbreak in April on the Celebrity Infinity. However person-to-person transmission via ill cabin mates and public vomiting incidents contribute to the occurrence of most of the outbreaks among passengers 16. Cruise ship staff send this report any time the ship is in the United States or within 15 days of arriving at a US.