Norovirus Cruise Ships 2014

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Norovirus cruise ships 2014. Norovirus and cruise ships Jennifer H Lun A D Kelly-Anne Ressler B E Mark J Ferson B C F and Peter A White A G Author Affiliations - Author Affiliations. Norovirus On Cruise Ships In April 2014 over 100 passengers on a week-long Crown Princess cruise had their vacation dampened by illness. Immerse yourself into culture cuisine art and history on Vikings award winning ships.

Production Schedule Potential to impact cruise ship schedule Investigation into cause of outbreak performed Additional cleaning of cruise ship needed Customer Service Labor Time AND AND A norovirus outbreak on Royal Caribbeans Explorer of the Seas sickened nearly 700 hundred people during a cruise that ended on January 29 2014. Ad The future of cruising - Modern Spacious ships. The GII4 Sydney strain was identified in 2012 in Sydney Australia.

As the only national or international body tracking norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships the CDC reports favorably on the cruise industrys efforts toward minimizing the spread of outbreaks in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report titled Acute Gastroenteritis on Cruise Ships. As the only national or international body tracking norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships the CDC reports favorably on the cruise industrys efforts toward minimizing the spread of outbreaks in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report MMWR titled Acute Gastroenteritis on Cruise Ships - United States 2008-2014 A few highlights. Norovirus can easily be brought on board when ships dock and due to its ability to persist on surfaces can infect consecutive cruises Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014.

After months of norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships a smoothie is finally implicated. In fact it affects many more people on land than on cruise ships. The cruise ship which was traveling along the coast of Southern California and Mexico had an outbreak of norovirus causing gastrointestinal illness in many crew members and passengers.

Among these 92 97 were caused by norovirus and among 80 norovirus specimens for which a genotype was identified 59 738 were GII4 strains. In fact according to the CDC over 21 million people are infected with Norovirus each year with less than 1 percent of out breaks occuring on cruise ships. Norovirus is a very contagious virus.

Among these 92 97 were caused by norovirus and among 80 norovirus specimens for which a genotype was identified 59 738 were GII4 strains. The Crown Princess is flagged out of Bermuda. With the Explorer of the Seas sailing back to New Jersey with almost 650 victims of norovirus related nausea and diarrhea Time magazine just published the article Cruise Out of Control.