The boat wocked and wocked ... and the poor puddy tat got thick and twew up!
Posted on 01/25/2014 9:36:28 PM PST by kingattax
Edited on 01/25/2014 10:26:22 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say 281 passengers have fallen ill aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
The CDC said in a statement Friday that another 22 crew members also are ill, with people reporting vomiting and diarrhea. Authorities said it's not yet clear what is causing the illness.
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Norovirus.
Royal Flush Caribbean Cruise
Don’t eat the fish.
I had the lasagna.
Carnival Cruise lines breathes a temporary sigh of relief.
Don’t eat the bad mushrooms.
Who says you always have to gain weight on a cruise?
Anybody up for a ptomaine cruise?
Maybe they will meet that rat ship.
When I was younger, I remember an outbreak of norovirus/Norwalk virus going through a wrestling camp I was attending. Needless to say, it spread fast and was very unpleasant.
Wonder how many diversity mandated members of the religion of peace are on the kitchen staff??
It’s just your basic 24-hour stomach flu. It’s been going around (went through all 4 members of my household, one after the other). Highly contagious, and very unpleasant, but thankfully short-lived. After seeing how quickly and thoroughly it hit everyone in my house, it is not hard to see how it could go through an entire cruise ship in a matter of days.
cruise ships are not the place you want to get sick. especially seriously ill.
The boat wocked and wocked ... and the poor puddy tat got thick and twew up!
Why do so many cruise ships have these major outbreaks of illness? It seems that we hear about this problem about ten times a year.
The problem has always been around. It’s just that the internet is here to advertise the issues as newsworthy. Go back to the 1700s...the trans-Atlantic trip usually resulted in two or three people dead from each trip.
I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of an outbreak of any type on an Alaskan cruise..
And that is why I only drink bottled water or alcohol on a ship.
“It’s just your basic 24-hour stomach flu. It’s been going around...”
There’s really no such thing as “stomach flu”. Influenza is not the culprit. What most people call “stomach flu” is really either bacterial food poisoning or most commonly food-borne infection from one of the noroviruses.
Either way, you’re probably looking at something that is transmitted via the fecal-oral route. Typically you’re dealing with food contamination as well.
There are a frighteningly large number of people out there who just dismiss their frequent bouts of gastroenteritis as “just the stomach flu”, when in reality they should be paying better attention to sanitary food prep (as well as good personal hygiene).
Cruise ships are a classic playground for norovirus infections because due to the common food prep areas once you get a little speck of infected fecal matter or vomit in the kitchen, then the everyone onboard the ship is going to be evacuating from both ends in short order and there won’t hardly be a surface left untouched.
It’s really a hardy little virus that can survive for weeks on a surface, infect a person with just a handful of individual viruses, and can even aerosolize from vomit or diarrhea.
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