A cruise ship failed a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) health inspection for the first time in 2026. The CDC gave the Norwegian Dawn an unsatisfactory score of 84 on March 29, 2026, documenting extensive health violations on the ship.
The violations include flies in buffet areas, mold in ice machines, refrigeration failures
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the Caribbean Princess has a norovirus outbreak on its current 13-day Caribbean voyage originating from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The CDC states that 102 passengers and 13 crew members are sick with the virus.
The total number of sick passengers and crew members may increase as
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on April 15, 2026 that 19 passengers and 3 crew members were sickened in a gastrointestinal (GI) outbreak on the Oceania Insignia. The outbreak occurred during the ship’s 10-night voyage that started in Panama City on April 4 and ended in Miami on April 14.
On March 12 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 104 passengers and 49 crew members are sick with norovirus on the Star Princess. The Princess Cruises owned ship is currently on a March 7 – March 14 Caribbean voyage.
The CDC monitors gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses on cruise ships as part
Two passengers were diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease after cruising on the Norwegian Encore in December 2025, according to Cruise Hive. Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has not disclosed if the passengers were on the same sailing or which sailing(s) it included.
Legionnaires’ Disease is a serious, potentially fatal form of pneumonia caused by inhaling water
At least 27 people are sick on the Seven Seas Mariner with a gastrointestinal (GI) infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The luxury ship reported the outbreak to the CDC on January 29, 2026.
This is the first cruise ship to report a GI outbreak to the CDC in 2026.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the Rotterdam cruise ship operated by Holland America Line (HAL) experienced a norovirus outbreak during the ship’s Caribbean voyage from December 28, 2025 through January 9, 2026.
The Carnival Corporation-owned ship had eighty-one (81) guests and eight (8) crew members sickened with vomiting and diarrhea
AIDA Cruises reported to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that 95 passengers and 6 crew members are sick with norovirus on its AIDAdiva ship. The AIDAdiva is currently in port in Colón, Panama as part of its 133-day cruise originating from Hamburg, Germany.
As part of the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP)
The Oceania Insignia reported to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that 74 passengers and 1 crew member are sick with Norovirus. This is the first gastrointestinal (GI) outbreak for Oceania Cruises and the 20th outbreak across all cruise lines this year.
Twenty GI outbreaks are the most ever reported by the CDC
Ninety-eight people have fallen ill with norovirus aboard Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas, according to a CDC report on September 28th. The outbreak includes 94 passengers and 4 crew members on the ship’s one-way voyage from San Diego to Miami, which began September 19th and ends October 2nd.
This is the
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a report in October 2024 stating there were at least twelve Legionnaires’ disease occurrences on two cruise ships. Ten cases were serious enough that cruise passengers required hospitalization. The CDC did not identify the cruise line(s) involved.
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A month ago, we last discussed gastrointestinal illness (GI) outbreaks on cruise ships when Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 and Seabourn Cruise Line’s Seabourn Encore both sickened 226 passengers and crew members. These two outbreaks brought the total number of CDC-reportable cruise ship-related illnesses to twelve for 2025. Since that time, a lot
Due to cuts by the Trump Administration, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now lacking the staff and resources to continue cruise ship health inspections under the Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP).
“Restructuring plans” by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK, Jr.) wiped out
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that there have been recent norovirus outbreaks on both Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 and Seabourn Cruise Line’s the Seabourn Encore which have sickened 226 passengers and crew members.
Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 had approximately 2,538 guests of which 183 passengers and 14 crew members were
On March 7th, a norovirus outbreak occurred on Holland America Line’s (HAL) Rotterdam bringing the total number of gastrointestinal (GI) outbreaks on cruise ships this year to ten. A total of eighty-nine (89) passengers and four (4) crew members were reported ill during the voyage on the Rotterdam.
The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 170 people on the Radiance of the Seas were sickened with diarrhea and abdominal cramps among other gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. The CDC reports that during the last cruise (September 20th– September 27th), 167 out
Seventy-five people (65 guests and 10 crew members) were sick with gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms on the Arcadia cruise ship when the P&O Cruises ship arrived in the port of New York this week.
The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated that 3.32%
Numerous newspapers have been reporting that cruise ships operated by Princess Cruises and Royal Caribbean International experienced gastrointestinal (GI) outbreaks in the last week. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initially reported that norovirus outbreaks sickened over three percent of the passengers on both the Sapphire Princess, operated by Princess, and the
