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CDC Confirms ‘Unknown’ Outbreak on Cruise Ship Has Spread (more people sick)
Epoch Times ^ | 2-14-24 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 02/15/2024 2:40:48 PM PST by dynachrome

An “unknown” outbreak aboard a cruise ship is spreading, and now 154 people are sickened, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an update this week.

So far, 25 crew members and 129 passengers on the Carnival-owned Cunard Cruise Line’s Queen Victoria have become ill during the trip, which is up by about 15 cases from when the illnesses were reported earlier in February, according to the CDC. The Queen Victoria cruise has 1,824 passengers and 967 crew members on board, according to the agency.

It’s still not clear what’s causing the outbreak on the cruise ship, which left Florida on Jan. 22. Symptoms include vomiting and diarrhea, said the CDC, which provided no other details.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Travel
KEYWORDS: cdc; covid24; cruise; cruiseship; fearfearfear; norovirus; outbreak; plagueprincess; rona; ship; wuhanvirus; zombietime
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To: irishjuggler

Norovirus issues seem to be prevalent only on cruise ships. Why?

Or is it that on cruise ships is the only times this virus gets reported...as the ship is a little self-contained sealed world.


41 posted on 02/15/2024 6:14:46 PM PST by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: citizen

‘...as the ship is a little self-contained sealed world.”

Yeah, I think that’s pretty much it. Occasionally the media will report a norovirus outbreak at a large high school or similar. While a high school isn’t quite as “sealed” as a ship at sea, it’s semi-sealed in that you might have 1,000 people in a relatively small space, not coming and going but rather in the same place for the better part of a day.


42 posted on 02/15/2024 6:19:09 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: irishjuggler
I suppose long-time crew may reach a level of immunity to these routine viruses. I remember a work lunch time meal. All the women thought they were sick from the Mex food. I was not affected at all.
43 posted on 02/15/2024 6:25:19 PM PST by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: dware

Hubby and I went on our first cruise on Wonder of the Seas last October with about 9500 other ppl. Neither one of us got sick. We’re going on Navigator of the Seas in May which is a smaller ship with about 5500 ppl total. We’ve had CoVID but we’re jab free. I use hand sanitizer frequently and refrain from touching things like hand rails any more than I have to. We went to Disney World in August 2020 and survived that too. Maybe we’re just lucky.


44 posted on 02/15/2024 6:57:56 PM PST by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: citizen

Cruise ships dump their waste into the same sea lanes they use over and over again. And that is also where they get their drinking water. It is filtered to get out the bigger chunks, and desalinized. But its filters cannot separate out viruses, which are too small, at from 23 to 40 nm in diameter.

The cruise lines are well aware of this, but refuse to spend the money to purify their water.


45 posted on 02/15/2024 8:17:11 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: bgill

Somebody didn’t “Washee Washee”.


46 posted on 02/15/2024 8:25:19 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dynachrome
Were they wearing their masks???


47 posted on 02/15/2024 9:20:51 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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