Gastrointestinal Illness Cruise Ships

Cruise ship staff send this report between 24 and 36 hours before the ship arrives at a US.

Gastrointestinal illness cruise ships. 16 rows CDC reports 28 of 327 856passengers and 8 of 290 276 crew have reported. Celebrity Solstice which carries almost 3000 passengers is the leading ship of the Solstice-class of cruise ships and has confirmed multiple cases of gastrointestinal illnesses. 4 Reports of gastrointestinal symptoms aboard cruise ships are common.

The New Paper reports the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore MPA told The New Paper on Friday Nov 15 that 229 passengers and crew on board the cruise ship MV Sun Princess had come down with gastrointestinal illness. TNP had reported earlier the cruise ship from Australia had decided to disembark all 2000 passengers when those affected fell ill. Advice about preventive measures of respiratory and gastrointestinal infections and influenza vaccination was given to passengers and crew.

The majority of infections on cruise ships involve respiratory and gastrointestinal infections which account for up to 29 and 10 of recorded illnesses on cruise ships respectively. Port after visiting a foreign port. The aim of this study is to estimate the incidence of and describe the spectrum of respiratory infections and gastrointestinal illness among passengers and.

The most common virus detected to date is the norovirus which is easily spread from one passenger to another. The use of onshore caterers for off-ship excursions has previously been reported as a risk factor for gastrointestinal illness amongst cruise ship passengers4 A cruise-assoc-iated diarrhoeal disease outbreak was defined as the occurrence of diarrhoeal symptoms among at least 3. Since 1978 more than 50 of ships have met the standard each year.

As reported in the current study a large number of cruise ship passengers were senior people andor subjects with underlying conditions who are at increased risk for influenza complications 17. When the programme began none of the cruise ships passed periodic VSP sanitation inspections. Dannenberg AL Yashuk JC Feldman RA.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Vessel Sanitation Program working with the cruise industry conducts ship inspections provides public. The actual incidence of gastrointestinal illness determined by a questionnaire survey of passengers sailing on nine cruises was found to be at least four times as high as that recorded in the medical logs. The symptoms seem to suggest norovirus a highly contagious condition that has been responsible for gastrointestinal cruise ship outbreaks in the past.