A Carnival cruise ship has become the sixth cruise ship this year to flunk a sanitation inspection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Carnival Fascination failed the surprise inspection with a score of only 84. You can read the report from the CDC here. It’s full of dirty and unsanitary
Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I find lots of information about things that the cruise lines would prefer you not know on Professor Ross Klein’s website called CruiseJunkie.com. A silly name I know, but the information is quite serious if you are interested in accurate information about cruise passengers
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), another Celebrity Cruises ship flunked a surprise inspection.
The Celebrity Century failed the CDC inspection, receiving a score of only 78.
Last week we reported that another Celebrity cruise ship, the Summit scored, flunked an inspection with a score of only 81. Three other cruise
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Cruise Critic is reporting that three cruise ships recently failed inspection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The cruise ships are the Celebrity Summit, Princess Cruises’ Golden Princess and the SeaDream II.
Take a moment and read the actual CDC reports of these ships. They are disgusting.
You can understand
CBS (Miami) reports today that a Royal Caribbean cruise ship arrived back in Port Everglades this morning with an outbreak of norovirus on board
The cruise line has not responded to requests for information, but passengers aboard the Vision of the Seas complained about vomiting and diarrhea. Passengers said more than 200 passengers had to
Last Friday, the day the Carnival Triumph passengers were finally going home from the "cruise from hell," the first two lawsuits were filed.
The first case mentioned in the press was filed by a Texas lawyer representing a woman from Brazoria County Texas. I printed a copy from the court’s online docket to read this
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Thursday night a news station in West Palm Beach, Florida is airing an expose into passengers who are sickened on cruise ships.
WPTV – 5 aired a teaser video tonight entitled Cruise Ship Workers are Breaking the Rules, and Making Passengers Sick.
It sounds like the TV station will take a look at the
Researchers in Europe, Japan, New Zealand and the U.S. have detected a new variation of norovirus which emerged last year. The virus was and remains particularly prevalent in the United Kingdom where norovirus sickened over 1,000,000 people. The virus was tracked back to Australia and has spread to a number of countries, The U.S. Centers
A newspaper in the U.K. reports on the grave illness suffered by a 18 year old college student in England which left her fighting for her life.
Chelsea-Rose Cartwright, photo left, developed septicemia from a virus she caught while on a cruise in the Mediterranean. Septicemia is a severe blood infection that can lead
ABC News aired a video look tonight at the recent spate of multiple norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships, focusing on the most recent outbreaks spreading to passengers and crew aboard the Queen Mary 2 and the Emerald Princess cruise ships.
You can read about our articles about the Emerald Princess and the QM 2.
Watch
Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 is in the news with reports that over 150 passengers have been stricken with norovirus as the cruise ship sails on a thirteen night itinerary in the Caribbean from New York.
The Daily Mail states that 150 – 200 passengers have fallen ill with symptoms of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
There
Miami’s WSVM Channel 7 television station is bringing us some bad news this Christmas Eve, reporting that passengers aboard a Princess Cruises cruise ship sailing on the high seas are ill with the dreaded norovirus.
According to News Station 7, more than 150 passengers and crew members reportedly caught the norovirus aboard the Emerald Princess
Yesterday I mentioned that over one hundred people are sick with norovirus aboard the Crown Princess cruise ship which will be arriving in Galveston tomorrow at the end of a 20 day cruise from Italy. This is the third outbreak of noro on this particular Princess cruise ship this year.
According to the Food & Drug
A Galveston television station reports that a Princess Cruises’ ship, sailing from Venice, Italy with a final destination in Galveston, has stricken nearly one cruise passengers with the dreaded norovirus.
KHOU states that the 20-day cruise turned out to be the "trip from hell" for dozens of passengers who fell ill. Ninety six passengers and
U.K. and Australian newspapers don’t mince words. Unlike the U. S. media which may politely refer to nasty norovirus outbreak on a cruise ship as a "stomach bug," the U.K. press and an Australian newspaper are using some choice words to describe a vomiting virus which has swept through P&O’s Oriana cruise ship, sickening many
Newspapers in Germany report that 67 passengers suffered “heavily illness” on a cruise ship last night aboard the Dutch river ship MS Bellriva. Around midnight the passengers began experiencing what is described as “agonizing nausea, diarrhea and vomiting.”
The cruise ship anchored in the district of Wiesbaden Biebrich on the Rhine River.
The newspapers
There are certain things you learn from crew members once they become your client. No matter whether the ship employees are from Jamaica, Serbia or India, or whether the crew members are employed by Carnival, Princess or Royal Caribbean, they all tell similar stories of "ship life."
Crew members regularly tell us that they work
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 10% of the passengers aboard Holland America Line’s Amsterdam cruise ship were sickened by a disease on the ship. It is not yet known whether the disease was norovirus or due to some other causative agent.
The Amsterdam was in port in San Diego yesterday after a
