Norovirus Cruise Ship

Recent Cases of Norovirus on Cruise Ships.

Norovirus cruise ship. Norovirus outbreak on cruise ships. Incidents of norovirus or other gastrointestinal GI disease are quite rare on cruise ships. We documented transmission by food and person-to-person contact.

How to avoid norovirus on cruise ships. Control measures include patient isolation hand washing and facility closure. In the past 20 years there have been close to 20 confirmed norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships.

Incidents of norovirus or other gastrointestinal GI disease are quite rare on cruise ships. We describe an investigation of a norovirus gastroenteritis outbreak aboard a cruise ship affecting 6 consecutive cruises and the use of sequence analysis to. From 2008 to 2014 74 million passengers sailed on cruise ships in the Vessel Sanitation Programs jurisdiction.

Cruise ship staff send this report any time the ship is in the United States or within 15 days of arriving at a US. The Royal Caribbean Oasis of the Seas cruise ship is cutting its journey short after 475 passengers and crew members have been infected with a norovirus Royal Caribbean Cruises announced Thursday. Norovirus is a very contagious virus causing acute gastroenteritis inflammation of the stomach intestines or both.

Worldwide norovirus is the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis. The ship falls within the purview of the Vessel Sanitation Program VSP. When 2 or more of the passengers or crew have gastrointestinal illness.

Incorrectly Called the Cruise Ship Disease. Incorrectly Called the Cruise Ship Disease. An outbreak on the Norwegian Gem during which 111 passengers and 3 crew members became ill November 2013.