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Indarra
First Class Passenger
Member # 6005

posted 11-20-2006 07:32 PM

I believe mild illnesses of this sort have occurred in passenger ships for a long time. I can rememember getting sick with noro virus type symptoms for the first few days when travelling on even 12 passenger ships in the 1950 and 1960s. On larger passengers ships in the 1960s I can remember other passenger also complaining about the same symptoms I had. It was something my family thought of as inevitable, and we always packed appropriate medicines. Nowdays more passengers are involved because the ships are larger, and everyone is more concerned about legal aspects. But also perhaps the bugs have got stronger??

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Sutho
First Class Passenger
Member # 6234

posted 11-21-2006 01:17 AM

What I want to know is why is it always the cruise lines or passengers fault for the virus??

What if the virus was contracted somewhere before the cruise and a passenger boarded not knowing they had it??

My maid purpose for replying is to find out what is the more cost effective way of dealing with the virus.

1 Do you make insurance compulsary and terminate the cruise allowing the ship to be cleaned and passengers refunded that way?

2 If you continue the cruise and ongoing passengers contract the virus, does the cruise line owe the new outbreaks compensation as these passengers have nowhere else to go?

I would really like to see a new way of dealing with the whole virus threat as what I saw this year on Oriana I feel the way it is dealt with could have been better. Either way someone is going to lose out over it so why blame passengers or the cruise line?

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Globaliser
First Class Passenger
Member # 4153

posted 11-21-2006 06:02 AM

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Originally posted by Ernst:
I am sure that there are outbreakes everywhere ... A hotel or restaurant spreading an infection (which is not necessarly the fault of the hotel or restaurant) is probalby more difficult to detect than a ship. People come and go all the time - and they are 'spreading out' - whereas on a ship people arrive and leave on the same day - and they e.g. ALL eat in the same restaurant.

Indeed, there must be, and there must always have been a low level of infection on ships - after all, the virus is not new, and it is said to be the second most common viral infection in the world (after the common cold).

And a closed environment like a ship is definitely a good way of spreading such an infection.

But my impression is that the problem was usually successfully controlled - until recently, when big outbreaks started happening on a regular basis.

So my question is: What has changed? And that, I think, is where the interesting epidemiology must be.

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