Norovirus On Cruise Ships 2017

A team of mathematicians from Arizona State University used data from a cruise ship outbreak in the early 2000s that sickened almost 600 people to model how norovirus spreads.

Norovirus on cruise ships 2017. Acute gastroenteritis AGE caused by Norovirus is very contagious and easily transmitted from person to person on cruise ships. Five simple ones on why. Another Royal Caribbean cruise between Australia and Singapore in early December had over 200 people infected by a virus including five that required hospitalization.

Norovirus is often branded as cruise ship virus simply because on ships health officials are required. We investigated an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis that was caused by norovirus GII that occurred on a cruise ship sailing on a four-day voyage along the Yangtze River from Hubei Province to Chongqing Municipality China April 2017. So norovirus spread among cruise guests very fast because childs sickness wasnt reported.

A very recent ship had almost 10 of the pax get sick. Food and drinks contaminated before loading or after unloading may become a common source of infection. Queensland Health confirmed on-board testing found norovirus to be the cause of increased gastro cases.

I wont mention any cruise lines by name but did you know that one ship has had six 6 norovirus outbreaks since 2010. According to data released by the CDC only two ships have experienced an outbreak of norovirus this year compared with 11 last year. Mar 10 2015 Comparing Cruise Ship and Airplane Travel.

For outbreak that most of cruise ship passengers are elderly people who might be more vulnerable to norovirus infection. At the same time the CDC provides information on healthy cruising basic in-formation related to norovirus on cruise ships and. The ship is completing the final leg of a two-week round trip between Brisbane and New Zealand.

Gastrointestinal illness outbreaks on cruise ships are at a 15 year low so far in 2017 with only two outbreak. Norovirus is no fun. Because there were less than than 2 of the passengers and crew members reported ill during the cruise the CDC will not list the outbreak on its official cruise ship Outbreak Updates page.