600 Passengers Sick On Cruise Ship

The Riordans were among the nearly 600 passengers and crew members who reported getting sick on Royal Caribbeans Oasis of the Seas.

600 passengers sick on cruise ship. CNN A transatlantic cruise ship carrying more than 600 passengers with at least five confirmed coronavirus cases on board has spent days searching for somewhere to dock after it. Even for a Norovirus outbreak 600 is pretty high. Whether there was a quarantine aboard the cruise ship is currently unclear.

Most cruise ships will have one or two doctors and up to four nurses onboard to treat sick passengers. Medical staff must meet certain training requirements but they do not have to be certified. The ships 650 crew members and 600 or so passengers including a New York Times reporter were required to be vaccinated before boarding and had to show proof of a negative coronavirus test.

A Royal Caribbean ship has just reported nearly 600 passengers have come down with the infamous cruise ship stomach bug. Wikimedia Commons Reuters - The number of passengers and crew who fell ill aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship climbed to more than 600 on Monday many of them vomiting. People joining the ship may bring the virus to other passengers and crew.

The outbreak on Oasis of the Seas was the first widespread Norovirus outbreak on a cruise ship of 2019 according to the Centers for Disease Control. So outbreaks are found and reported more quickly on a cruise ship than on land. You escape on a Caribbean cruise and suddenly everybody around you starts throwing up and has a bad case of diarrhea.

With so many people sick this can only mean that either crew members failed to detect the outbreak right away failed to quarantine those who exhibited symptoms or failed to sanitize areas that those stricken with the. I typically characterize small ships as those carrying 1000 or fewer passengers or guests as the cruise lines like to refer to the warm bodies that inhabit their vessels. Cruise ship with 600 ill passengers returns home.

In the latest case almost 600 people on a 10-day Royal Caribbean International cruise voyageabout a fifth of the passengersfell sick with suspected norovirus while sailing in the Caribbean. However I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the best luxury cruise ships carrying fewer than 600 passengers. Cruise returning early after hundreds of passengers get sick on Royal Caribbean ship By Amanda Jackson and Hollie Silverman CNN Updated 0057 GMT 0857 HKT January 12 2019.