Are Cruise Ships Full Of Germs

What the cruise-ship outbreaks reveal about COVID-19.

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An earlier version of this article stated that the antimicrobial film kills COVID-19 germs. Germs To find out where germs may lurk the Rossen Reports team went on a Caribbean cruise armed with test swabs and an official bacteria meter. Ad Book Today and Save.

Cruise ships are a hotbed of bacteria and potential illnesses but the deadliest may be Legionnaires Disease an infection caused by Legionella organisms that leads to severe pneumonia. AN expert on infectious diseases has explained why cruises are often seen as a hotbed of germs when it comes to spreading illnesses and viruses following a number of outbreaks of coronavirus. There are hundreds of ships moving hundreds of thousands of guests and crew from port to port every single day.

Corrections and Amplifications. Unlike most contagions this illness is not spread through person to person contact though this may happen on rare occasions. This virus can spread quickly and it can cause symptoms such as diarrhea stomach cramping low-grade fever chills headache muscle aches nausea and tiredness.

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From 2008 to 2014 74 million passengers sailed on cruise ships in the Vessel Sanitation Programs jurisdiction. When they violate the law they pay the equivalent of a parking ticket. 40 facilities and activities.