Air Borne Illness On Cruise Ships

News and World Report wrote an article titled Cruise Ship Norovirus Bug Can Spread by Air Study Finds saying that notorious bugs that have infected scores of people and ruined countless cruise ship vacations can spread through the air and infect people several feet away according to new research Thereafter I wrote a series of articles.

Air borne illness on cruise ships. Princess Cruise Lines issued a statement about the outbreak saying. Naturally becoming ill and having to cut a vacation short is no ones idea of a good time. The median cruise ship passenger is over 45 years old and often has chronic medical problems so it is important that to have a safe cruise ship experience any potential for the introduction of an infecting agent as well as its transmission be minimized.

Coronavirus on cruise ships. People often associate cruise ships with acute gastrointestinal illnesses such as norovirus but acute gastrointestinal illness is relatively infrequent on cruise ships. Also wash hands after using the restroom returning to.

Only 129678 passengers met the programs case. Before arriving to a US. Since 1978 more than 50 of ships have met the standard each year.

When 2 or more of the passengers or crew have gastrointestinal illness. The aim of this study is to estimate the incidence of and describe the spectrum of respiratory infections and gastrointestinal illness among passengers and crew of cruise Ship. Outbreaks of viral infections on cruise ships have been appearing frequently in the headlines this year.

When packing your suitcase for a cruise think about bringing along some Dramamine dimenhydrinate which can be helpful for motion sickness. The majority of cruise ship infections involve respiratory and gastrointestinal infections. In the first week of February 2012 approximately 500 cases of norovirus reportedly occurred on two Princess Cruise ships according to CNN.

Cruise ships are required by the CDCs Vessel Sanitation Program VSP to report all onboard cases of gastrointestinal illness 24 hours prior to arrival in any US. Cruise ships carry a large number of people in confined spaces providing an environment for transmission of infections. However cruise liners are aware of this - and so have strict.