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CARIBBEAN CRUISE NIGHTMARE: HUNDREDS FALL ILL
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^
| November 11 2002
| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted on 11/11/2002 6:00:43 PM PST by FoxPro
About 163 passengers aboard the Port Everglades-based cruise ship Amsterdam reportedly fell ill from a foodborne virus on a trip that ended Monday.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: caribbeancruise
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To: Pharmboy
No Memo, but I did get this........
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posted on
11/11/2002 7:12:58 PM PST
by
cmsgop
To: xrp
That ship must've smelled like the monkey house at the Bronx Zoo.
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posted on
11/11/2002 7:13:30 PM PST
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Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
PACKED WITH NUTS !!!!!
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posted on
11/11/2002 7:13:50 PM PST
by
cmsgop
To: cmsgop
Yummm...peanuts too!
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posted on
11/11/2002 7:14:04 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: FoxPro
My only cruise was a trip to Bermuda (from New York) in 1987. One night, my new wife and I (it was our honeymoon) had midnight buffet which had mostly raw fish. I was sick for a week afterwards. On the bright side, I got sick the day before we returned so the trip wasn't a total wash.
To: SamAdams76
Sushi I gather....
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posted on
11/11/2002 7:18:16 PM PST
by
cmsgop
To: FoxPro
Okay, here's my food handlers gripe: You go to the donut shop, pick out some tasty gut bombs. The clerk first gets a nice clean tissue, uses it to pick up your donuts, and places the donuts in the bag. But he/she also puts the tissue in the bag, WITH YOUR DONUTS!
If the purpose of the tissue is to protect the donuts from whatever nasties that might be on the clerk's hands, shouldn't the tissue then go in the trash, instead of snuggling up next to my donuts?
To: FoxPro
Infection with diseases spread by poor handwashing, especially by fecal-borne illness, is extremely common on cruise ships. After my first cruise, when I spent my vacation chilling with high fever and suffering from severe diarrhea, a pharmacist in Miami explained that the crew on foreign-registered ships are mostly from 3rd world countries where concepts like asepsis and handwashing are mostly unheard of. They are cheap labor and willing to spend weeks cooped up on board before a break.
When these 3rd-worlders get together for months on a cruise line, they spread this stuff like wild fire. The unusual part of this story is that it actually reached the press; most do not.
After that first cruise, I have heard this story repeated over and over. I would NEVER go on another cruise with a line that is not subject to U.S. sanitation regulations, as the foreign lines are NOT. If you have gone on a cruise with a foreign-registered boat and not gotten ill, it's because you are very lucky or because you have an exceptional immune system.
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11/11/2002 7:26:42 PM PST
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PLK
To: PLK
Hopefully Carnival Cruise Lines has higher standards for employee health practices.
One wonders if this might have been sabatoge by a disgruntal Haitian employee?
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posted on
11/12/2002 6:47:01 AM PST
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anymouse
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