2019 Cruise Ship Outbreaks
WHO World Health Organization officially classified the outbreak as worldwide pandemic on March 11 2020.
2019 cruise ship outbreaks. The Centers for Disease Control who keeps track of virus outbreaks on cruise ships reports just 11 outbreaks for all of 2017. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention CDC in 2019 alone there were eight confirmed outbreaks of norovirus on seven different cruise ships. The report did not name the cruise ship line.
An outbreak is considered when 3 or passengers or crew report the same illness on a single cruise. VSP posts cruise ship outbreaks when they meet all of the following criteria. In less than a months time span the cruise line had five outbreaks among various ships which led to a total of 462 passengers and crew getting hit by the stomach bug.
Are on voyages from 3-21 days long. A total of 122 passenger outbreaks occurred on cruise ships visiting ports in the Southeast 443 California 201 and Northeast 175 regions Table 3. Are on ships under VSP jurisdiction see about VSP.
Industry plagued by pandemic outbreaks plots comeback. From July to September 2019 cruise line X experienced sudden unexplained outbreaks 3 of the passenger population of acute gastroenteritis AGE among passengers on 10 cruise ships. 16 rows Otago Daily Times reports a cruise ship that visited Dunedin at the weekend had an outbreak.
HALIFAX - It was an outbreak that captivated the world. During January 2019 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC and other international health organizations reported several voyages that exceeded the reporting threshold requirement for a norovirus outbreak. A spatial cluster of 13 813 AGE outbreaks among crew was identified for cruise ships arriving at ports in the southeastern region.
Cruise ships 101. The cruise was cut short. Cruise ship outbreaks down in 2019 Outbreak News Today By NewsDesk infectiousdiseasenews.
