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Cruise expert Professor Ross Klein reports that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that 307 of 2112 passengers (14.5%) and 14 of 952 crew (1.5%) aboard the Celebrity Summit have reported sick with "gastrointestinal illness."
You can read about the outbreak on the CDC website here.
There is no indication whether the illness is
BBC News has an article about a gastrointestinal virus outbreak sickening passengers aboard a Fred Olsen cruise ship this week.
Last week we reported on the Fred Olsen Black Watch cruise ship (what a dreadful name) which was nicknamed the "Black Death" by norovirus infected passengers who have suffered through three consecutive sailings aboard what
Last week we reported on a norovirus outbreak on the Fred Olsen cruise ship, Black Watch, while sailing to Russia. The cruise ship’s sickened passengers dubbed the ship the "Black Death." One ill cruise passengers was quoted saying:
“The staff marked doors of those infected with a cross. It was like the Dark Ages.
The Daily Record reports that the Fred Olsen Black Watch was nick-named "Black Death" after more than 100 passengers were struck down by a norovirus outbreak during a 12-night Scandinavia and St Petersburg cruise.
The cabins of infected quarantined passengers were marked with crosses to warn cruise staff who wore face masks for protection. Their luggage
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A newspaper in the U.K. reports that dozens of passengers were struck down by a "vomiting bug" on board a cruise ship which docked in Southampton yesterday.
The Celebrity Eclipse returned from a two week Mediterranean cruise which departed on May 11th.
77 passengers and five crew members – 1.8 per cent of those on
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports the Celebrity Millennium cruise ship sailed to Seward, Alaska last Friday, May 10th, with an elevated number of passengers and crew with a gastrointestinal illness. 164 of its 1,963 passengers and 30 of its 935 crew members experienced the gastro-illness.
The CDC states that the “causative
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
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
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
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
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
The Voyager of the Seas has returned to Australia today after a 18 night cruise. Like the previous cruise, this cruise aboard the Voyager ended with the cruise ship arriving in port with what appears to be hundreds of cruise passengers infected with norovirus.
We are beginning to receive emails from passengers who were sickened
A number of people have contacted us, including one passenger "Nancy" from Australia, complaining about a recent, major norovirus outbreak on the Voyager of the Seas. She writes:
"The Voyager of Seas has relocated to Asia Pacific region husband and I sailed on the relocation cruise from Singapore 22nd Oct 2012 to Fremantle Australia.
Yesterday we received an email from a cruise passenger planning to board the Celebrity Constellation, indicating that embarkation would be delayed several hours today because of a norovirus outbreak on the cruise ship.
Today news outlets are reporting that there has been a large outbreak of the dreaded disease on this ship. BBC reports
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.
