Alaska Cruise Ship Illness

When 2 or more of the passengers or crew have gastrointestinal illness.

Alaska cruise ship illness. Bryant a health communication assistant with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ANCHORAGE Alaska AP The Canadian government has extended a ban on cruise ships through February 2022 which is expected to block many ships from visiting Alaska this year. According to passengers a Code Red was called the second night of the cruise due to gastro intestinal illness on board.

Hsu was kept overnight for observation in the ships medical area and the next day the ships doctor felt she should go to a hospital at the next port in Juneau Alaska. The health agency not only rolled out complete guidelines and requirements on how to sail safely but also instituted a new color-coded status for cruise ships. 14 the CDC had assigned orange color status to six Carnival Cruise Line ships three Royal Caribbean Group ships two Norwegian Cruise Line ships and one Disney ship.

If you feel ill from Norovirus while on a cruise ship visit the ships doctor. CDC reports 30 of 700 43 passengers and 17 of 585 29 crew have reported gastrointestinal illness on the 8 November - 2 December cruise. The 7 day Alaska cruise ended in Vancouver on June 4.

On June 2 the ship reported that 5 of 574 087 crew and 64 of 1230 52 passengers were ill. The predominant symptoms were vomiting and diarrhea. Cruises - Sea Sickness and Alaska - I am prone to sea sickness and my husband just loves cruises.

Over the last five years only 4 reported cases of illness have been recorded aboard the ships in the Oceania fleet with approximately 300 passengers infected with some form of gastrointestinalNorovirus sickness. However person-to-person transmission via ill cabin mates and public vomiting incidents contribute to the occurrence of most of the outbreaks among passengers 16. CDC reports 68 of 1285 529 passengers and 9 of 599 050 crew have reported gastrointestinal illness on the 3-18 November cruise.

Additionally be sure to drink plenty of water as dehydration is a common side-effect. The total number of infected was 1177 of those 1099 passengers and 78 crew. During the voyage 135 of the 2588 passengers and 16 of the 1093 crewmembers reported being ill according to LaKia R.