Last Monday I published an article about the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) failing the Silver Shadow cruise ship following a surprise inspection last month when the ship was calling on Skagway, Alaska. The article is entitled: Silver Shadow Fails Sanitation Inspection After Caught Hiding Filthy Conditions from Health Inspectors
Former Silversea
Last December, I wrote an article about the practice of certain cruise lines which hide dirty pots & pans and cooking equipment from U.S. health inspectors. The article, which focused on the MSC Poesia, is entitled "Hide & Seek" – Cruise Lines Play Games With USPH Inspectors.
After I published that article, several
The last several articles on this blog have involved gastrointestinal (G.I.) virus outbreaks on cruise ships.
The cruise ships involved are Holland American Lines’ Volendam and Veendam, (HAL ships, historically, are the most likely to be contaminated with norovirus), the Discovery cruise ship which was held up in Liverpool for what the cruise
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
The Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) reports that a Royal Caribbean cruise ship berthed at the Suva Wharf in Fiji was quarantined today by authorities following what is described as an outbreak of norovirus. The Health Ministry in Fiji reportedly confirmed 51 cases of the contagious virus on board the Rhapsody of the Seas which is carrying around
Cruise Critic reports today that just one month after HAL’s Veendam flunked an inspection by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Blount Small Ship Adventures Grand Mariner’s 100 passenger cruise ship also failed a CDC inspection:
"Moldy ice-cubes, inadequate monitoring of food temperatures, raw meat stored with nonmeat items, ingredient containers left open, dirty
Below is a CNN video regarding the 16 year old Holland America Line’s Veendam cruise ship which failed an inspection conducted by the Centers for Disease Control.
We blogged about this incident last week in our article:
"Gross! Holland America Line’s Veendam Flunks Health Inspection."
CNN described the ship conditions as "really gross:"
Flies. Dirty and malfunctioning ice machines, refrigerators & dishwashers. More flies. Dust, dirt, food residue, and debris. Flies and more flies. Flies where food is prepared. Flies where food is stored. Ugh. These unsanitary problems are part of a ridiculously long list that the U.S. Centers for Disease documented during a surprise inspection last month aboard
A number of cruisers have been contacting our office asking about a sickness outbreak aboard the Celebrity Cruises’ Constellation cruise ship.
The Centers for Disease Control ("CDC") officially placed the Constellation on its vessel sanitation list of ships with sickness. The Constellation sailed on January 28th from Fort Lauderdale and returned yesterday, February 11th.
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In a story widely reported in the national media, the Centers for Disease Control failed Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas after conducting a surprise vessel sanitation inspection last month.
On November 18, 2011, CDC inspectors boarded the Monarch of the Seas, which is the cruise line’s oldest vessel, and found numerous public health risks and violations if the
The popular cruise blog written by Gene Sloan for the USA Today newspaper published an article yesterday entitled "Outbreaks of Illness on Cruise Ships at Multiyear Low."
CruiseLog cites statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ("CDC") of 11 outbreaks of illnesses so far in 2011, down from 14 in 2010 and 15 in 2009. It concludes that this reflects
Courthouse News Service reports that a lawsuit has been filed against Celebrity Cruises for the death of a father of eight after he died from incompetent medical care for norovirus he contracted during a vacation cruise aboard the Celebrity Solstice.
The lawsuit alleges that Joseph Gavigan Jr., from Orleans, Massachusetts, embarked the Solstice cruise ship in January of this year in Fort
The medical journal "Clinical Infectious Diseases" published an article entitled "Disease Transmission and Passenger Behaviors During a High Morbidity Norovirus Outbreak on a Cruise Ship, January 2009."
Of some 1842 passengers on the cruise ship, 1532 (83%) returned questionnaires provided by the researchers. 236 (15%) met the norovirus definition.
This particular cruise had a passenger vomit in
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has listed Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas as the first cruise ship in 2011 to suffer gastrointestinal illness affecting more than 2% of the vessel’s passengers.
The CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program website has indicated that 150 of 2336 (6.42%) of the Royal Caribbean passengers reported being ill during the
A local news station in Charleston South Carolina is reporting that passengers aboard the Mercury cruise ship on the March 21st sailing are ill. The story is entitled "Five Cases of Norovirus on Celebrity Mercury Cruise Ship."
The article suggests that the information came from the cruise line, although I do not see a
