More than 100 passengers and over a dozen crew members have fallen ill with norovirus aboard the Caribbean Princess during a 13-day voyage through the Eastern Caribbean. The Princess Cruises ship departed Port Everglades, Florida, last week and is scheduled to arrive at Port Canaveral in the state Monday. At the time of the outbreak, the vessel was carrying 3,116 passengers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 102 passengers became sick with the highly contagious stomach virus. In addition, 13 of the 1,131 crew members onboard also reported illness. Those affected experienced typical norovirus symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea, according to health officials. The virus is known for spreading rapidly in close-contact environments such as cruise ships, where shared dining spaces and frequently touched surfaces can make containment difficult once an outbreak begins.
norovirus is synonymous with cruise ships, and now covid.
Man, I don’t care how convenient of a vacation is, but it’s too damn gross. A fucking cesspool of filth and bacteria out on the water…the worst of the worst.
You couldn’t pay me enough to go to Florida.
What, were people not buying the hantavirus one?
Non-story. Norovirus happens all the time, especially on cruise ships. This is a case of the public being highly sensitive to news stories that are relevant in the current zeitgeist. Happens all the time with airplane incidents.
The virus is usually spread by the fecal–oral route.[3] This may be through contaminated food or water or person-to-person contact. But it’s still F-ing gross
Its a non story until they decide its not. Covid was a non story for several months too.
Who is “they”?
The epstein class. You know, the same people who decided covid was an existential threat to humanity requiring lockdowns, experimental gene therapy injections and the largest transfer of wealth in human history(transfered to them unsurprisingly).
Wow, there’s still a few of you left. I had thought you were all clustered down by the bayou or had died from your own abject stupidity. Won’t be long before your delusions take care of it anyway.
The COVID-19 vaccine was one of the most remarkable achievements in human history and, ironically due to your ignorance, is the only vaccine in history that does NOT change DNA. We’re now finding it works to unleash the immune system against cancer, giving 50% increased treatment effect and survival.
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You’re ignorant as shit and proud of it. What a miserable existence.
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Norovirus is normal, it went thru my boot camp division. Its just the normal “cruise ship flu” that always happens and sucks.
Hantavirus is not normal, especially the Andres variant that was on that other cruise ship. (Edit: it’s “normal” as in it’s the reason you have to wear masks and gloves when dealing with mice, because catching it is incredibly serious even tho most rodents don’t have it. The version that can go from human to human, is incredibly rare, and incredibly dangerous.)
That fucker has like 40% lethality when respiratory (how it seems to be travelling human to human) and while transmission window is short, just walking withing 4 feet of someone whose not even exhibiting systems is enough to infect.
I can’t remember the incubation time for sure, but I think liken4-6 weeks?
And you just fucking know when the Americans from that ship come back, they’re not going to have to do quarantine or anything.CDC has announced they don’t have to quarantineHave you even looked into it?
Or are you wanting for Lil Bobby Kennedy to put the raccoon penis down and investigate?
This isn’t “nothing” and honestly it’s weird more people aren’t freaking out.
Is little Bobby Kennedy in the room with us right now?
FEAR! FEAR THE DRIZZLY SHITS! OOOOGA BOOGA BOOOOOGA
I got noro when I was around 20 from food at a family gathering. I ended up in hospital on fluids because I could not drink anything and was vomiting at least once an hour and had diarrhea several times a day. I was so weak I could hardly move.
Yes, it’s shit (in both ways and we’ve also had it) but hardly newsworthy in the way it is now. I don’t think the world was informed when our kindergarten was affected ant it was easily 100 people in scope at least.
Literally anyone with contact to any related person got infected.
It’s literally like an annual event in kindergartens too. Ours had it pretty bad this winter, some kids were hospitalized.
I’ve had it three times that I know of. Once after a canoe trip, everyone in our car got it but the other car didn’t, so I think it was wherever we had stopped for lunch. Second time it came home from daycare. Both times it was fast but violent, with intense nausea, emesis, and diarrhea. The third time we got it from a company party where over 100 people got sick. I didn’t think it was norovirus because it wasn’t like those first 2 bouts, my wife had some nausea and diarrhea while I pretty much just had overwhelming fatigue. Only know it was norovirus because I submitted a sample to a state lab due to the number sickened
