600 Passengers Sick On Cruise Ship
So outbreaks are found and reported more quickly on a cruise ship than on land.
600 passengers sick on cruise ship. 23 2010 -- Its a travelers worst nightmare. 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. According to Bernadette Burden a spokeswoman with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention more than 600 people on the ship have become ill.
The Royal Caribbean cruise ship Explorer of the Seas will return to New Jersey two days early after more than 600 people were sickened by a fast-moving gut bug that spiked over the weekend. Ship was blocked from a string of ports in Bahamas after outbreak onboard. Last year 11 widespread Norovirus outbreaks were recorded on cruise ships by CDC.
Most cruise ships will have one or two doctors and up to four nurses onboard to treat sick passengers. However I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the best luxury cruise ships carrying fewer than 600 passengers. A Carnival cruise ship that sailed out of Galveston Texas reported the first death since United States cruise lines reopened for business in June.
Even for a Norovirus outbreak 600 is pretty high. Wikimedia Commons Reuters - The number of passengers and crew who fell ill aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship climbed to more than 600 on Monday many of them vomiting. Medical staff must meet certain training requirements but they do not have to be certified.
CNN A transatlantic cruise ship carrying more than 600 passengers with at least five confirmed coronavirus cases on board has spent days searching for somewhere to dock after it. 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. More than 600 passengers and crewmembers on a Royal Caribbean cruise have been sickened by a gastrointestinal virus according to.
You escape on a Caribbean cruise and suddenly everybody around you starts throwing up and has a bad case of diarrhea. Five passengers on the Braemar have already tested positive for Covid-19. Whether there was a quarantine aboard the cruise ship is currently unclear.
