Posted on 12/17/2017 7:49:19 AM PST by BenLurkin
During the five-night cruise, 332 cases of the illness were reported, Owen Torres, a spokesman for Royal Caribbean told CNN in a statement. He stressed that it was a small percentage — 5.99 percent — of the more than 5,000 passengers and crew onboard the ship, Independence of the Seas.
“Those affected by the short-lived illness were treated by our ship’s doctors with over-the-counter medication,” Torres said, “and we hope all our guests feel better quickly.”
It is not known what caused the illness.
“It was just terrifying,” Tracy Flores, a passenger whose 15-year-old son came down with the illness, told CNN affiliate WPLG Saturday. “Just the amount of people that were coming in at the same time with vomiting and diarrhea and just looked ghastly.”
WPLG reported that some passengers who were disembarking Saturday in Port Everglades, Florida, believed the number of passengers who got sick was higher than what Royal Caribbean said.
“We talked to plenty of people who said that they were too sick to even make it down to the (ship’s) medical facility,” passenger Marsha Homuska told CNN affiliate WSVN.
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Based on experience I recommend selecting a ship of minimum size 150,000 tons. You will have very little feel of ship’s motion.
Only 322 people simultaneously puking and crapping their guts out in a confined space? No problemo. Sounds any college campus on a Sunday morning.
American Queen, on the Mississippi. Loved it on my honeymoon! We bussed to Vicksburg but unfortunately, not much time to really experience it. Also, they don’t much want you out because of the damn fire ants everywhere. They ruin everything.
““And it encouraged anyone with nausea, vomiting or diarrhea to avail themselves of “complimentary consultation and treatment” at the ship’s medical facility.”
I wonder what that entailed...?”
Last rites and pepto bismol.
“I can’t believe no-one got it, or posted the pix of Leslie
Shirley you must be joking.
Aside from that I wonder how the 322 enjoyed their cruise?
““And it encouraged anyone with nausea, vomiting or diarrhea to avail themselves of “complimentary consultation and treatment” at the ship’s medical facility.”
I wonder what that entailed...?”
5,000 people on the SS Vomitanic...sign me up!
Have no clue, seriously, how the medical facility treats Noro affected patients. During my 160 days on the high seas during 26 cruises, I have been healthy and got healthier and stronger at the end of each cruise. I do that by eating healthy (lots of veggies, fruits and lean protein, all available in unlimited quantities with no extra charge on cruises) and walking minimum 3 miles every day on the ship. Last week, on the ship Oasis of the Seas, it was 1/2 mile round trip walk just from our cabin to our assigned dining room. Multiply by 3 or 4 meals every day.
I avoid the buffet restaurants on ships. That is where families with young children eat. People touch the food, and many times it is sitting out there for hours. My wife and I always go to the dining room, where one can order from menu and food is prepared fresh per order. The food staff is much more reliable than passengers eating in buffet restaurants helping themselves.
...but I didn’t have the salmon mousse.
Reminds me of a Noro epidemic along the Appalachian trail last year. Several trail shelters were closed for a couple of weeks due to hikers projectile vomiting all over the place.
I’m glad for your enjoyment and good luck on your cruises.I hope you continue to enjoy and be safe and healthy. I’m just somebody who can’t be confined like that. Like an African lion all of a sudden put into zoo.
Not meaning to stretch this any further, on a large cruise ship, I have much more opportunities to move around, run or walk, exercise in a huge gym, swim in many pools, sit in a sauna, watch great live entertainment, eat great food without bills to pay each time, breath the ultra oxygen rich ocean air, watch the most glorious sunsets, than I ever had at any of the dozen cities I have lived in.
The ship Oasis of the Seas has total public areas to walk through of over 12 miles. That ship is 2.5 times larger than our average air-craft carriers.
We never complained and ended up becoming loyal customers of the line as a result of how great they handled the situation.
Might be a buying opp in a few days though.....
Many years ago...Jack-in-the-Box..had an E-Coli out break...I think it was Washington state..A couple days after that....I bought the stock. Was a good trade...
We shall see about RCL..............
Probably was the raw fish. As a rule, when away from home, I will avoid any uncooked food. There was a recent episode of several people getting sick from eating raspberries in a high end restaurant.
Raw fish can cause more harm than just vomiting/diarrhea for a few days. I saw on reality TV, one man ate sushi and got infected with parasites which made a home in his eye, causing all sorts of problems.
Probably camera was left behind by a previous passenger in that stateroom who wanted to record what was going on there.
That’s all well and good but i get claustrophobic in the middle of Nebraska.
““Those affected by the short-lived illness were treated by our ship’s doctors with over-the-counter medication,” Torres said, “and we hope all our guests feel better quickly.””
So in a day or two you can put your liver, spleen, intestines, shoes etc back where they came from and everything will be just hunky dory.
Why do people go on these cruises? They seem like stomach virus tin cans. What is fun about it? Maybe during the summer but during virus season, all you hear about is how deathly sick they all were.
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