Sick People On Cruise Ship

People seem more concerned not about getting sick on their cruise but what happens if someone else gets sick.

Sick people on cruise ship. The way it spreads is through physical contact. This is true on cruise ships and different outbreaks of norovirus influenza coronaviruses. People often associate cruise ships with acute gastrointestinal illnesses such as norovirus but acute gastrointestinal illness is relatively infrequent on cruise ships.

According to data from the US. The cause of most cruise line norovirus outbreaks is contaminated food or water. But because a lot of older people tend to book cruises Dr.

48 of the patients had underlying disease. Cruise ship staff send this report any time the ship is in the United States or within 15 days of arriving at a US. Wherever there are large groups of people there is the potential for any contagious disease to spread.

No one wants to take part in that experience. Passengers who werent ill were held on ships for days or weeks with many eventually becoming sick. So now that cruises are returning to the United States what will happen to both healthy and sick passengers if someone gets COVID on a cruise ship.

In fact the VSP reports that just 911 cruise passengers out of 30 million contracted gastrointestinal illnesses on cruise ships in 2019. The ship was at 30 capacity when it took off for a. Cruise ship staff send this report between 24 and 36 hours before the ship arrives at a US.

Twenty-six crew members and one passenger on board a Carnival Cruise Line ship have tested positive for COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated. Spangler says shipboard doctors commonly see injuries from falls followed closely by cardiopulmonary issues gastroenteritis norovirus. Cruise ship crews were mainly in their 30s and 50s and passengers were mainly in their 70s.