Norovirus On Board Cruise Ships

Every time there is an outbreak the cruise lines blame the passengers who board the cruise ships.

Norovirus on board cruise ships. Ready To Break Free. Why are acute gastrointestinal illnesses including noroviruses associated with cruise ships. Indeed part of the reason we associate cruise ships with norovirus is because each time an outbreak happens ships are obligated to report it and thus it tends to hit the news unlike say when.

Incorrectly Called the Cruise Ship Disease. Norovirus is one of the most common causes of illness on board cruise ships. What You Should Know about Norovirus.

A suspected norovirus outbreak has seen at least six passengers onboard a Norwegian cruise require medical attention with some reports. Radisson Seven Seas Cruises. Immerse yourself into culture cuisine art and history on Vikings award winning ships.

And as the bug is extremely contagious trapped on a ship is probably the worst. In all of 2013 there were nine outbreaks of norovirus on major cruise ship lines according to the CDC during which about 1500 passengers and crew contracted norovirus out of a total of almost 27000 56 percent passengers and crew on board. So outbreaks are found and reported more quickly on a cruise ship than.

Ad The future of cruising - Modern Spacious ships. Widespread person-to-person norovirus outbreaks can occur on board cruise ships even with appropriate environmental health practices. It spreads in locations where people are congregated into enclosed spaces nursing homes hospitals daycares and schools hotels dormitoriesand yes cruise ships.

On a cruise ship norovirus is mainly spread directly from person to person. Even accounting for others infected with norovirus on ships without outbreaks thats a tiny fraction of the 20 million passengers who. Close living quarters may increase the amount of group contact.