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When I worked on ships, the rules were that if over 2% of the passengers reported symptons of diarrhea, it had to be reported to the CDC (Center for Disease Control.) This is usually when the event makes the news.
quote:Originally posted by debm3553: The Holland ship Veendam returned to the port of Tampa a day ahead of time(Jan28)due to the fact over 200 passengers had gotten sick on the cruise.
What about the 1240 passenger who were not ill? I bet they are not pleased about returning home early.
I understand that the Norwalk virus is not particularly nice, but for healthy people it is not dangerous either. It passes within a few days.
Lets not forget it exists eslewhere such as shopping malls, airports, hotels, trains etc.
quote: Lets not forget it exists eslewhere such as shopping malls, airports, hotels, trains etc.
Indeed so. My father (in his 80s) holidays once or twice a year with a company in the UK who specialise in coach/hotel holidays for old folks, and on one such holiday 18 months or so ago, the party was hit with a serious tummy bug. They were in Ireland, and by the end of the 5 days (for it was only a short holiday) almost one-third of the people had been ill (and about 10% still were). They were staying in a perfectly decent hotel in the Republic, which had apparently never had any such problem before.
They stayed until the end and then drove home. They were due to stay overnight at a hotel in N Wales (having got off the ferry at Holyhead late in the evening) but this hotel refused to allow them to stop - the holiday company had done what they were supposed to do by informing the hotel what the situation was. So the coach ploughed on; a relief coach driver was picked up on the welsh border (the 'official' driver was almost out of hours by then); and they arrived at the terminus at Coventry in the early hours of the morning. The holiday company then made sure that everyone had transport home, because of course they were now about 10 hours early. In the case of my dad & his wife, this was a taxi from Coventry to Oxfordshire, paid for by the company.
It emerged during the journey home that one of the holidaymakers had been ill the day before the holiday but had decided to go because she was 'feeling a bit better' on the morning of departure....
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