A puke fest is underway on the Carnival Glory cruise ship, with passengers taking to the message boards at Cruise Critic to comment that passengers are suffering from diarrhea and other norovirus-like symptoms,
The message board states that Carnival prepared a letter to passengers this weekend that passengers on the prior cruise experienced norovirus sickness.
The Sun Sentinel newspaper in Fort Lauderdale reports that passengers aboard the Island Princess cruise ship are experiencing symptoms of gastrointestinal illness, according to a spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control ("CDC").
The Princess cruise ship is scheduled to return to Port Everglades this morning after sailing a 10 night Panama Canal cruise.
The newspaper
Princess Cruises’ Ruby Princess cruise ship experienced a norovirus outbreak with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reporting that 129 passengers 9 crewmembers suffered gastrointestinal illness.
The Ruby Princess was on a 7 day cruise from February 26 to March 4, 2012 out of Fort Lauderdale.
The Ruby Princess suffered another outbreak last
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A reader of Cruise Law News in the U.K. alerted me to an article in the Daily Echo that one of Royal Caribbean’s cruise ships based in the U.K. has been hit with a break out of norovirus:
“Thousands of holidaymakers due to set sail on board a Southampton-based cruise ship were hit by delays
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 responsible step to sanitize its cruise ship following an outbreak of what appears to be norovirus, Princess Cruises decided to end the current cruise of its Crown Princess cruise ship after consulting with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Nearly 400 passengers and crew on the last cruise became sick due to gastrointestinal illness, which is suspected to
ABC News reports tonight that over 30 cruise passengers were suffering from sickness when the Celebrity Silhouette cruise ship called on St. Maarten today.
Over the last few days, at least four cruise ships have suffered from outbreaks of illness, including norovirus: the Oasis of the Seas and the Voyager of the Seas (both operated
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
The Centers for Disease Control ("CDC") report that 118 of the 2,730 passengers aboard the Celebrity Solstice cruise ship have reported to the ship’s medical facility with vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms of gastrointestinal illness.
The Solstice is currently on a 14 day cruise and will return to Fort Lauderdale on December 11, 2011.
Pursuant to the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program, environmental health
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WebMD and a few other medical journals report that there have been promising results from the tests of an experimental vaccine designed to prevent infection and symptoms associated with norovirus.
WebMD explains that researchers sprayed the experimental vaccine in the noses of 47
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The Southern Daily Echo newspaper in Southampton England is reporting that the Celebrity Eclipse cruise ship was delayed for “enhanced sanitation” after dozens of passengers returning to Southampton from a 11 night eastern Mediterranean cruise had been struck down by norovirus.
Sick passengers disembarking the cruise ship at the city’s terminal reported seeing “people walking around in Ghostbusters
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
For those of you who read Cruise Law News know that I report regularly on the numerous norovirus cases which plague the cruise industry. I am rather fascinated by the cruise lines’ PR departments which always blame norovirus outbreaks on the passengers for bringing the virus aboard, rather than contaminated food and water which infect the passengers.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A reader of our blog informs us that Royal Caribbean’s Jewel of the Seas continues to infect cruise passengers with norovirus.
The reader referred us to the Harwich and Manningtree Standard and Daily Gazette newspapers in Norwich U.K. which report that Royal Caribbean passengers continue to be struck by a highly-contagious virus for the second time in a month. The cruise line again
Cruises.co.uk reports today that norovirus has broken out aboard Royal Caribbean’s Jewel of the Seas cruise ship.
The website reports that passengers due to sail on June 12, 2010 have been informed to arrive late as embarkation will start to take place from 4:30pm. The cruise ship will apparently undergo what the cruise line calls an "enhanced sanitizing"
So far, no one is reporting an outbreak of sickness aboard Celebrity Cruises’ Mercury cruise ship for its latest – March 21st – sailing. This is good news after the last three disastrous cruises.
Today’s South Carolina Post and Courier newspaper runs the headline "Mercury Appears Free of Norovirus" in which the newspaper reports: "after several days at
At 8:00 p.m. this evening, Celebrity Cruises’ Mercury cruise ship will sail for an eight day cruise to the Caribbean.
The Mercury has been called the "sickest sea at sea." Even ABC’s Good Morning America posed the question: Celebrity Mercury – Sickest Ship At Sea – Can Cruise Ship Be Cured?
Local South Carolina ABC affiliate WCIV News
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that 406 of the 1829 passengers (22.1%) aboard Celebrity’s Mercury cruise ship have reported fever, vomiting, and/or diarrhea. These CDC statistics are based entirely on the information provided by the cruise line.
In the past week, we have received information from crew members that although they were sick, they were required
