Cruise Ship Illness Outbreak

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Cruise ship illness outbreak. 16 rows Earlier this month the initial suspected norovirus outbreak was reported in the national press. Travelers diarrhea at sea. Coronavirus COVID-19 is an ongoing pandemic disease that started with the outbreak in Wuhan China in December 2019.

Health officials have boarded the cruise liner to investigate an illness outbreak that has stricken at least 300 people with gastrointestinal symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea. The outbreak of 27 cases aboard the ship was discovered on the fourth day of an eight-day cruise shortly before the ship docked in Belize. In accordance with VSP protocol the chief medical officer on board the ship has kept a log of illness among the crew and passengers.

In 2010 an outbreak of cyclosporiasis affected passengers and crew on two successive voyages of a cruise ship that departed from and returned to Fremantle Australia. Unfortunately it seems like cruise ship injury and illness are increasingly common. By News Desk on December 7 2017.

Outbreaks of diarrhoeal illness on passenger cruise ships 1975-85. So outbreaks are found and reported more quickly on a cruise ship than on land. The cruise ship had departed on November 1st from Australia heading to Singapore.

The Princess Cruise line Ruby Princess has reported a stomach illness outbreak on its latest cruise. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship is headed back to New Jersey two days early after an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness spiked over the weekend the cruise line says. At least one person must have carried the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 SAR.

The study population included persons on board on February 3 2666 passengers 1045 crew. WHO World Health Organization officially classified the outbreak as worldwide pandemic on March 11 2020. Norovirus is a common culprit in outbreaks on cruise ships in nursing homes and other confined places.