Cruise Ship Vomiting Bug

Vomiting outbreaks have been reported on several ships A guide for tackling an infectious vomiting bug on board cruise ships has been compiled by health experts.

Cruise ship vomiting bug. Nearly 80 passengers on the 300million ship have become victims of the virus which causes severe vomiting nausea and diarrhoea. Thousands of passengers travelling on a British cruise. Heres what the NHS has to say about it.

The passengers from Oriana are now back in the UK. Caribbean cruise ship turns back after 300 get vomiting bug The ships operator Princess Cruise Lines Ltd says the voyage has been cut short out of an abundance of caution. Commonly known as the winter vomiting bug although it can strike any time of year norovirus causes projectile vomiting diarrhoea headaches and stomach cramps and spreads like wildfire if given half a chance.

Many had to be quarantined and confined to their cabins on the Fred Olsen lines flagship cruise ship Balmoral. Passengers collapsing restaurants shut down and toilets smelling of vomit. A total of 342 people on the Fred Olsen ship Balmoral which left Dover on 21 December were affected by the vomiting bug the cruise operator said.

The UKs Daily Mail reports that the Balmoral cruise ship dubbed the Cursed Cruise Ship of the High Seas is facing the prospect of being impounded after it was hit by a vomiting bug for the third time in less than a year. A cruise ship due to arrive in Hampshire is undergoing extra cleaning following an outbreak of the norovirus winter vomiting bug. 378 people on the luxury cruise ship Oriana are struck by norovirus as reports of the bug rise by 72 per cent this.

Outbreaks on cruise ships are not uncommon. Queen Victoria cruise ship faces US. More than 400 passengers on a cruise ship were hit by winter vomiting bug norovirus Southamptons port health authority has confirmed.

Norovirus causes sickness and diarrhoea and is easily transmitted in confined places such as hospitals and schools. Vomiting bug-hit cruise ship back in Britain A liner hit by the winter vomiting bug during a pre-Christmas cruise arrived back in port in England on Friday after one passenger dubbed it a plague. A bartender aboard Aida Cruises was struck down with a contagious crippling stomach bug.