More than 140 passengers and crew members aboard an international ship of the Royal Caribbean were flavored by an unidentified illness, said the sanitation program for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday.
The ship, the seas’s navigator, was on a round trip of a week that left Los Angeles on July 4. The ship made three stops in Mexico, according to the Cruisemapper ship’s follow-up site, then returned to Los Angeles on July 11, that is to say when the epidemic was reported to the CDC.
Of the ship’s 3,914 passengers, 134 said they were sick during the trip. Seven crew members on 1,266 diseases reported. The symptoms they felt included diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal cramps, said CDC.
Royal Caribbean told the CDC that his crew increased cleaning and disinfection procedures according to their prevention and response plan for epidemics, collected stool specimens for tests, passengers of isolated patients and crew members and consulted the ship’s sanitation program. The program watched the situation remotely, said the CDC.
The CDC said that more work will be done to determine the cause of the epidemic. Often norovirus, a contagious stomach bugis to blame for epidemics of gastrointestinal diseases on cruise ships, the agency said.
Recent diseases have followed several other epidemics of cruising ships in recent months. In February, nearly 80 passengers aboard a Holland America line fell ill. This same month, more than 80 passengers and crew members on a Princess Cruises ship fell ill During a 16 -night cruise. An epidemic on a Cunard cruise line luxury ship making an international trip of a month Also affected more than 240 passengers and crew members earlier this year.
