Foodborne Illness On Cruise Ships

Control of person-to-person spread of illness among crew and passengers becomes the major objective.

Foodborne illness on cruise ships. Cheese cake yes no no no no. Coli Hepatitis Listeria Shigella Rotavirus. Major cruise lines such as Norwegian Royal Caribbean Carnival Holland America and Disney were hit 19 times by outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness all of which were attributed to norovirus.

Are on ships under VSP jurisdiction see about VSP. Dec 3 2002 CIDRAP News Ð Despite several recentoutbreaks of intestinal illness on cruise ships federal health officials sayit is safe to go on cruises and that the number of illnesses relative to thenumber of passengers may actually be lower this year than in past years. Close living quarters may increase the amount of group contact.

So outbreaks are found and reported more quickly on a cruise ship than on land. Seafood cocktail was implicated in 8 of 13 documented food-borne outbreaks. GI outbreaks on cruise ships from food and water sources have also been associated with Salmonella spp enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Shigella spp Clostridium perfringens and Cyclospora cayetanensis.

An outbreak of gastroenteritis on a passenger cruise ship. Norovirus is often branded as cruise ship virus simply because on ships health officials are required to report every gastrointestinal illness incident. ObjectiveFoodborne disease outbreaks on ships are of concern because of their potentially serious health consequences for passengers and crew and high costs to the industry.

For international cruise ships porting in the United States from 2010 through 2015 816 outbreaks of norovirus infections occurred each year. Daniels NA Neimann J Karpati et al. Cruise Ship Illness Happens.

Almost 200 people on one of the worlds largest cruise ships are sick with what public health officials say appears to be a foodborne illness from the boats bottomless buffet. The findings of this review show that the majority of reported outbreaks were associated with cruise ships and that almost 10000 people were affected. J Infect Dis 2000 18114911495.