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281 Passengers Ill Aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise

Health • January 2014 • Views: 1,479

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say 281 passengers have fallen ill aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.

The CDC said in a statement Friday that another 22 crew members also are ill, with people reporting vomiting and diarrhea. Authorities said it’s not yet clear what is causing the illness.

The CDC said health officials will board the ship on Sunday while it’s docked in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Authorities said specimens are being collected and will be tested.

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4 comments

Snarknado! Sat, Jan 25, 2014 7:00:57pm

Actually, yes. In an enclosed area like a boarding school or a ship at sea, these things happen. Sometimes even in skyscrapers. I’m not going to stop cruising because of it — life is full of hazards.

aagcobb Sat, Jan 25, 2014 8:21:25pm

We went on a Disney Cruise the first of the year, and they had hand sanitizer out everywhere you went on the ship. As far as I know, no-one got sick.

wheat-dogghazi Sat, Jan 25, 2014 11:47:26pm

It’s probably a norovirus, resulting from poor sanitation. People are in a closed environment, and all it takes is one sloppy person (didn’t wash his hands after taking a shit, for example) or contamination of the fresh water, and in fairly short order, many people get ill.

Here’s some statistics from the CDC about norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships.
cdc.gov

And a wiki on norovirus. en.wikipedia.org

Washing your hands or using hand sanitizer helps, but you have to trust that the food and water are not contaminated, too.

lawhawk Sun, Jan 26, 2014 3:49:33pm

re: #3 wheat-dogghazi

Went on a cruise once. I got sick with norovirus. It was a most unpleasant experience. Confined to room and got sea-sick to boot (before I got ill, I was fine and didn’t have any kind of seasickness).

How did I get it? I probably touched something that was cross-contaminated - which is real easy to do. Buttons on elevators. A railing on stairs. A table. Chair. Seats.

And that’s with me being vigilant about using the hand sanitzer that was all over the place.

Note too that the outbreak counts only those confirmed cases. There are probably some people who are sick and haven’t reported it.

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