Stomach Flu On Cruise Ships

The CDC notes that while people often associate cruise ships with norovirus acute gastrointestinal illness is relatively infrequent on cruise ships.

Stomach flu on cruise ships. First outbreaks can occur any time you have a group of people living together in a. However the close living quarters on the ship. Norovirus aka winter vomiting disease aka 24-hour stomach flu.

It is definitely contagious. Perceptions that cruise ships can be luxury breeding grounds for acute gastroenteritis outbreaks dont hold water read a statement released Monday by the CDC in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Learn more about norovirus.

According to US health officials more than 300 people on board the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship have been struck down with a suspected stomachflu. Norovirus is acute gastroenteritis which generates symptoms such as vomiting diarrhea and stomach pain. Yet cruise ships some of which make people ill are a cash-and-carry-business that remains popular despite real risk.

Most cruise lines even put out barf bags around the ship on rough sea days. After visiting the ships infirmary I was put under a 24-hour. The ship must notify the CDC when 2.

Uncategorized Leave a comment. The last time more than two cruise ships reported outbreaks in January was 2006. Published November 16 2014.

Norovirus better known as the stomach flu was the cause of two of. No one is quarantined to their stateroom solely from this as a result. Is the stomach flu contagious.