Norovirus Infected 200 on Two Cruse Ships: CDC

Published on April 30, 2024

About 200 people on two cruise ships became sickened with norovirus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. The CDC said that 94 of the 2,532 guests on Prince Cruises’ Sapphire Princess were sickened during the cruise from April 5 to May 7. Twenty crew members were also ill with the virus. The agency added that 67 out of 1,993 guests as well as two crew members on Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas also became ill with the virus. The cruise ended on April 22. The CDC is monitoring both cruise ship outbreaks remotely. “In response to the outbreak, Princess Cruises and the crew aboard the ship reported the following actions: Collected stool specimens from gastrointestinal illness cases for testing,” the CDC said, adding that it also “isolated ill passengers and crew” and “increased cleaning and disinfection procedures according to the ship’s outbreak prevention and response plan.”...

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