Norovirus Cruise Ships 2014

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Norovirus cruise ships 2014. From 2008 to 2014 74 million passengers sailed on cruise ships in the Vessel Sanitation Programs jurisdiction. As the only national or international body tracking norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships the CDC reports favorably on the cruise industrys efforts toward minimizing the spread of outbreaks in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report MMWR titled Acute Gastroenteritis on Cruise Ships - United States 2008-2014 A few highlights. The cruise ship which was traveling along the coast of Southern California and Mexico had an outbreak of norovirus causing gastrointestinal illness in many crew members and passengers.

As the only national or international body tracking norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships the CDC reports favorably on the cruise industrys efforts toward minimizing the spread of outbreaks in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report titled Acute Gastroenteritis on Cruise Ships. Norovirus is a very contagious virus. During 20082014 a total of 133 cruise ship acute gastroenteritis outbreaks were reported 95 71 of which had specimens available for testing.

Recent Cases of Norovirus on Cruise Ships. After months of norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships a smoothie is finally implicated. The following report is a review of the latest research into Norovirus and the effects on the cruise ship industry.

Thats less than a. Norovirus On Cruise Ships In April 2014 over 100 passengers on a week-long Crown Princess cruise had their vacation dampened by illness. Only 129678 passengers met the programs case definition for acute gastrointestinal illness and only a small proportion of those cases 1 in 10 were part of a norovirus outbreak.

By Jim Walker on January 28 2014. CDC investigators finally traced the norovirus not coronavirus illnesses last year back to a smoothie. The CDC reported that norovirus hit more than 600 passengers and crew on Royal Caribbeans Explorer of the Seas in January making it one of.

During 2008-2014 a total of 133 cruise ship acute gastroenteritis outbreaks were reported 95 71 of which had specimens available for testing. 2016 An outbreak of multiple norovirus strains on a cruise ship in China 2014. In fact according to the CDC over 21 million people are infected with Norovirus each year with less than 1 percent of out breaks occuring on cruise ships.