Cruise Ship Sickness 2017
The seven-night cruise departed from Port Canaveral on Sunday and returns this weekend.
Cruise ship sickness 2017. The 167 cases of gastrointestinal illness represent 2 percent of the 8454 guests and crew on board. No one wants to get sick while on a cruise but the recent headlines involving cruise ship cleanliness or lack of is hard to ignore. Cynthia Braaf Passenger Illness Death Freedom of the Seas On November 12 2017 Cynthia Braaf 54 from Lauderhill Florida was cruising with her husband Humphrey aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Line ship Freedom of the.
This was a 7 night Southern Caribbean cruise aboard Royal Caribbeans Adventure of the Seas for those of you just joining me. The article mentions that the cruise ship will skip its scheduled stop in Tortola British Virgin Islands and head straight back to the US. Cruise ships dump sewage 12 miles from shore and the fecal material can contaminate shellfish which filter-feed.
When 2 or more of the passengers or crew have gastrointestinal illness. An outbreak is considered when 3 or passengers or crew report the same illness on a single cruise. The ship was on a 7-day Alaskan cruise from Seward AK to Vancouver BC Canada.
Cruise Illness Virus Outbreaks. Passengers were apparently not allowed to disembark in Falmouth. This occurred on the the fifth night of my cruise.
More cruise ships failed health inspections in 2017 than any other year the past decade according to a recent report. Food poisoning Buffet dining on a cruise ship requires passengers to serve themselves food and eat their food near other passengers in confined spaces. Cruise ship staff send this report between 24 and 36 hours before the ship arrives at a US.
The issue of eating oysters and other shellfish on cruise ships presents a double whammy. A NORWEGIAN Cruise Line ship has docked in Los Angeles as several people were hospitalized amid a suspected norovirus outbreak. My day port was Antigua for this particular day.
