Yet Another Cruise Ship Returns to Port With Sick Passengers
FORT LAUDERDALE — About 100 people came down with a gastrointestinal illness aboard a Caribbean cruise that ended here Sunday.The Sun Princess, operated by Princess Cruises, was undergoing a thorough cleaning after docking at Port Everglades. Julie Benson, a spokeswoman for Santa Clarita, Calif.-based Princess said 97 of about 1,950 passengers on the ship and another six crew members became sick during the 10-day voyage.
“This is not a very serious outbreak, but we did treat it as we treat all increased incidents,” she said, “very immediately and swiftly.”
Test results had not yet been received, but Benson said affected passengers and workers had symptoms consistent with the highly contagious norovirus. Norovirus is a common source of illness on land, but has also created large outbreaks at sea, most recently when nearly 700 passengers fell ill on the Carnival Liberty last month on a trans-Atlantic cruise.
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