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I was trapped on a floating vomitorium
The Sun ^ | February 28, 2018 | Lauren McMah

Posted on 02/28/2018 7:40:37 PM PST by Rebelbase

[snip] Lorraine Thomas is among more than 16,000 passengers impacted by back-to-back outbreaks of norovirus on eight Sun Princess journeys between December 2016 and February 2017, who may be eligible for compensation, according to Shine Lawyers.

Thomas, from Queensland, Australia, had saved up $1,700 for a 14-day voyage to New Zealand with a friend who was celebrating a birthday.

The trip began well enough, aside from an overflowing toilet and cabin keycard difficulties. But about halfway into the voyage, the two friends began to suffer the awful symptoms of the dreaded norovirus.

‘It was horrendous’

When the vomiting struck, Thomas was diagnosed over the phone by the ship’s doctor and told to remain quarantined in her cabin.

She was told someone would come and check on her — but was made to wait 11 miserable hours.

“To be quite honest, it was horrendous,” Thomas told News.com.au.

“It was a small cabin and — I can’t put this any more politely — there was only the ice bucket to be sick in. The basin was blocked, and we had problems with the [toilet] anyway and it kept overflowing.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Hobbies; Travel
KEYWORDS: australia; cruiseship; newzealand; norovirus; princesscruiselines; stomachbug
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To: Rebelbase

No sympathy violins playing here.
Anyone who doesn’t know these ships are like a petri dish of every disease known to man, must have been living in a cave.
I fail to understand the intrigue of these floating cesspools.
Folks who would scream bloody murder at being trapped in an elevator for 15 minutes, pay good money to be trapped in a floating elevator for weeks. ???


21 posted on 03/01/2018 3:29:12 AM PST by Fireone (Lock Her Up! (and 100 of her accomplices))
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To: LukeL

22 posted on 03/01/2018 4:09:11 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: LukeL

23 posted on 03/01/2018 4:09:11 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Noro is notoriously infectious. You can pick it up off a door knob. And handwashing these days seems to be a lost art.


24 posted on 03/01/2018 4:11:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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25 posted on 03/01/2018 4:11:46 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Ken H

Mine too! And this is one of the reasons.


26 posted on 03/01/2018 4:35:46 AM PST by MagnoliaB (You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime you might find, you get what you need.)
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To: Rebelbase
Back in the '90s I worked for a hospital in south Florida which had a contract to handle crew "sick call" for two of the major cruise lines operating out of the port of Miami.

The pathology teaching docs loved it. They got to show their students dozens of exotic third world bugs you'd never see in twenty years if you worked at a hospital in flyover country.

One guess on how many cruises I have taken since then.

27 posted on 03/01/2018 4:46:12 AM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon (I'm an unreconstructed Free Trader and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Rebelbase

I bet their ships were constantly being recontaminated by persons in the ships’ cleaning crews between voyages; setting up subsequent voyages as already carrying the virus.


28 posted on 03/01/2018 6:19:59 AM PST by Wuli
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To: linear

Roger that. Wife and I have been on many Royal Caribbean, Holland American, and Norwegian American cruises to point north and south and never had any problems with outbreaks. But then we have never been to Golden Corral or similar land-based feed troughs either.


29 posted on 03/01/2018 6:23:24 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: mewzilla

Norovirus struck the shelters on a 30 mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail in NC last year. Volunteers hiked in to clean up the puke and apply disinfectant.


30 posted on 03/01/2018 6:38:18 AM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: Rebelbase

I served on aircraft carriers. Everytime the air wing embarked, they’d bring their germs with them . Several thousand people from different parts of the country stuck inside the confines of the ship. Every blasted time they’d bring the creeping crud with them.


31 posted on 03/01/2018 6:42:12 AM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Rebelbase
Well, back when I was in the Naval Reserve and went on my two-week cruises, I'd just line up at the rail with the other seasick guys and puke over the side. Can't people do that on a cruise ship?
32 posted on 03/01/2018 7:45:24 AM PST by JoeFromSidney (,uld')
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To: Daniel Ramsey

It’s one of the reasons for the popularity of River Cruises. Fewer people and more laid back. The bar MIGHT be open after 10:30PM.

We are looking at the Pacific Northwest for one. There are also some Alaskan cruises where you never lose sight of land.


33 posted on 03/01/2018 7:51:58 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Rebelbase; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thomas, from Queensland, Australia, had saved up $1,700 for a 14-day voyage to New Zealand with a friend who was celebrating a birthday.
That's like $100 a day savings! Woo-wee!.

34 posted on 03/01/2018 10:23:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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