Stomach Flu On Cruise Ships

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Stomach flu on cruise ships. Ad Enjoy the flash offer to book World Dream from SGD205 per person. CDC About 5 percent of the ships passengers became sick. Cruise ships must keep track of instances when passengers or crew members report multiple symptoms of the stomach flu.

This leads you to have stomach pain nausea and diarrhea and to throw up. No one is quarantined to their stateroom solely from this as a result. In 2010 when I was 16 I came down with the stomach flu while on board Royal Caribbeans Oasis of the Seas with my family.

Yet cruise ships some of which make people ill are a cash-and-carry-business that remains popular despite real risk. The ship must notify the CDC when 2. Norovirus is acute gastroenteritis which generates symptoms such as vomiting diarrhea and stomach pain.

Book by 18 Oct. Stomach flu confirmed on cruise ships Ocean Princess and Anthem of the Seas and the University of Michigan is conducting a new. The ship must notify the CDC when 2 percent of the passengers on board have symptoms.

There are two reasons stomach flu seems to crop up so often on cruises Rupp said. Uncategorized Leave a comment. With cruise ship outbreaks regularly appearing in the news awareness of Norovirus -- an extremely common and highly contagious virus that causes gastroenteritis -- has been significantly raised.

The CDC notes that while people often associate cruise ships with norovirus acute gastrointestinal illness is relatively infrequent on cruise ships. The sickness usually lasts no more than three days. Published November 16 2014.