I’ll tell ya what…..you couldn’t get me on a cruise ship. Too many people get weird illnesses…..and if that don’t get ya, there’s always the possibility you might disappear!

By the time Carnival Cruise Lines‘ Liberty pulls into Port Everglades this weekend from a transatlantic voyage, more than 700 people on board will have been afflicted with a highly contagious, stomach flu-like illness that appears to be norovirus, the cruise line said Wednesday.

The outbreak could be the largest reported in recent years by the cruise industry.

“It’s impossible for now to say what the source is,” said David Forney, chief of the cruise ship sanitation program at the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He said it’s likely passengers brought the virus with them when they boarded and it spread from there, but U.S. inspectors will look at whether food or water contributed to the outbreak.

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