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. So outbreaks are found and reported more quickly on a cruise ship than on land. 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. 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.

For more than 400. 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. One of the sick passengers Joseph Angelillo told CNN in a telephone interview that the experience had put an end to any more cruise plans.

Whether there was a quarantine aboard the cruise ship is currently unclear. Ship was blocked from a string of ports in Bahamas after outbreak onboard. Even for a Norovirus outbreak 600 is pretty high.

January 27 2014 341 PM CBS News. 23 2010 -- Its a travelers worst nightmare. Close living quarters may increase the amount of group contact.

More than 600 British passengers are stranded on Caribbean cruise ship and facing a ten-day nightmare trip home as five test positive for coronavirus after outbreak onboard. The number of passengers and crew who fell ill aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship climbed to more than 600 on Monday many vomiting and. A Carnival cruise ship that sailed out of Galveston Texas reported the first death since United States cruise lines reopened for business in June.

People joining the ship may bring the virus to other passengers and crew. Last year 11 widespread Norovirus outbreaks were recorded on cruise ships by CDC. The number of people hit with a gastrointestinal illness on a Royal Caribbean International cruise ship has swelled to nearly 500 a company spokeswoman said Friday.