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Infectious disease on cruise ships is a hazard associated with cruises. Outbreaks of contagious diseases can spread quickly due to the confined cruise ship environment, reliance on shared spaces, the lack of healthcare facilities, [ 1 ] and the large number of passengers and crew members from disparate points of origin.
Early in 2020, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease spread to a number of cruise ships, with the nature of such ships – including crowded semi-enclosed areas, increased exposure to new environments, and limited medical resources – contributing to the heightened risk and rapid spread of the disease. [1]
More people experienced gastrointestinal illnesses while aboard a cruise ship in 2024 than any other year since 2012, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...
The Diamond Princess is a British-registered luxury cruise ship that is operated by Princess Cruises, a holiday company based in the United States and Bermuda. In February 2020, during a cruise of the Western Pacific, cases of COVID-19 were detected on board. The vessel was quarantined off Japan for two weeks, after which all remaining ...
The lawsuit alleged that Princess Cruise Lines did not warn the couple that an outbreak on board the ship had sickened passengers during its previous voyage. [34] On 4 May 2020, a lawsuit was filed against Princess Cruise Lines and Carnival Corporation by the son of a retired Lehigh County steel worker who was a passenger that died of the virus ...
The ship was originally scheduled to arrive Sunday. In a statement, Norwegian said "a small number of guests" were experiencing "mild symptoms of a stomach-related illness."
More than 100 passengers on a cruise holiday gave fallen ill after an outbreak of sickness on a Cunard ship.. Of the 1,824 on board Queen Victoria, 116 have suffered some form of gastrointestinal ...
Hospital ships designated for the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title COVID-19 pandemic on ships .