Video above: Cruise ship with greater than 90 sick passengers docks in Tampa
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention is monitoring a norovirus outbreak on a Florida cruise ship, days after an unknown sickness sickened over 100 individuals on a Tampa-based ship.
Over 100 passengers and crew have fallen unwell with norovirus on Holland America Line’s Rotterdam ship, in accordance with a report from the CDC.
The report states 107 out of 2,614 passengers, or 4.1%, are sick. The sickness is affecting 12 of 969 crew members, or 1.2%. These affected reported experiencing vomiting and diarrhea, which was decided to be attributable to norovirus.
In response to the outbreak, the cruise line reported that it’s isolating sick passengers, upping its sanitization procedures and consulting with well being officers to observe the unfold of the sickness.
The Rotterdam outbreak is the seventh reported to the CDC this yr. The ship set sail from Port Everglades on Feb. 2 and is anticipated to return on Friday.
This comes days after a ship returned to Tampa with 168 sickened passengers and crew members. These aboard Royal Caribbean’s Radiance of the Seas additionally reported experiencing diarrhea and vomiting, however the supply of the sickness is unknown, in accordance with the CDC.
