115 Fall Sick as Norovirus Rips Through Cruise Ship
The Daily Beast • • health
Key Points:
- The CDC reports that 115 passengers and crew members aboard the Caribbean Princess cruise ship have fallen ill with norovirus, exhibiting symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and fever.
- The ship, carrying 3,116 passengers, departed Port Everglades on April 28 and was scheduled to arrive in Port Canaveral on May 11.
- Norovirus, the leading cause of food-borne illness in the U.S., spreads rapidly through contaminated food, water, surfaces, and close contact among infected individuals.
- The cruise ship has intensified cleaning measures and is isolating those infected to contain the outbreak.
- U.S. officials are also monitoring Americans returning from a Dutch cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak resulted in three deaths.