115 Fall Ill as Norovirus Rips Through Cruise Ship

Stringer . / REUTERS The Centers for Disease Control is reporting that 115 passengers on a Florida-bound cruise ship have fallen ill with the highly contagious norovirus. As of Thursday, 102 passengers and 13 crew members of the 3,116-passenger Caribbean Princess were already stricken, with symptoms including vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and fever. The ship left Port Everglades on April 28 and was scheduled to arrive in Port Canaveral on May 11. Norovirus is the leading cause of food-borne illness in the U.S., according to the CDC. It spreads quickly among sufferers and through contaminated food, water, and surfaces. The ship has increased cleaning and is isolating the infected passengers. U.S. officials are currently tracking returning Americans who were passengers on a Dutch cruise ship where an outbreak of hantavirus killed three people. Read it at The Hill Read more at The Daily Beast.

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