Report: U.S. health officials issue 'no sail' advisory for illness-plagued Celebrity ship

Ray Goldenberg wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:02:07 -0400, frijoli wrote:

I feel something is amiss on this ship as far as cleanliness and sanitation.
Seems like her name comes up a LOT for illness

Hi Clay,

FWIW, here are the scores from the CDC.

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Those are just routine inspections though. Not really how many time they pop up
in the new for Noro or the like.

Even from that data it shows they're going down hill.

frijoli wrote:

Those are just routine inspections though. Not really how many time
they pop up in the new for Noro or the like.

Even from that data it shows they're going down hill.


The Mercury has gone though this before. That is having massive
outbreaks of Noro. Makes one wonder.

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Charles

Ray Goldenberg wrote:

Hi Clay,

They are far from going downhill. Cruise lines are thrilled with
these types of scores on a ship of this age since the CDC inspections
are very tough. BTW, you should not take news media reports based on
facts. Most of us know they are often not based on reality.


The CDC said it was bad enough on Mercury that it should not sail. And
Celebrity is offering full refunds. I expect the Mercury is not long for
the Celebrity fleet.

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Charles

On 16 Mar 2010 18:02:11 GMT, Charles
wrote:

The CDC said it was bad enough on Mercury that it should not sail.

Hi Charles,

You are absolutely correct. I was referring to the past reports as
far as cleanliness, etc.
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On 3/16/2010 7:02 PM, Charles wrote:
Ray wrote:

Hi Clay,

They are far from going downhill. Cruise lines are thrilled with
these types of scores on a ship of this age since the CDC inspections
are very tough. BTW, you should not take news media reports based on
facts. Most of us know they are often not based on reality.

Sure. Cruise lines really see norovirus outbreaks as fanaaastic business
opportunities. Don't believe everything you read in the press....

Sjeesh. What an idiot.


The CDC said it was bad enough on Mercury that it should not sail. And
Celebrity is offering full refunds. I expect the Mercury is not long for
the Celebrity fleet.


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George Leppla wrote:
peter wrote:


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OK... you win. Up until recently, even though you were playing a troll
I didn't mind discussing the cruise business with you or answering your
posts. But between your personal attacks and crap like this link, I've
decided that your signal to noise ratio is just not worth my time any more.

Congratulations, not even Sisker ever made it into my kill file.

Buh-bye.

My sentiments exactly.

duly killed on this computer.

Ray Goldenberg wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:41:02 -0400, frijoli wrote:

Those are just routine inspections though. Not really how many time they pop up
in the new for Noro or the like.

Even from that data it shows they're going down hill.

Hi Clay,

They are far from going downhill. Cruise lines are thrilled with
these types of scores on a ship of this age since the CDC inspections
are very tough. BTW, you should not take news media reports based on
facts. Most of us know they are often not based on reality.
--
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While I agree you can't always believe the news reports, I'm curious to know how
many outbreaks the Mercury has had in the last two years versus other ships. I'm
sure I've heard the Mercury's name several time prior to this event.

Clay

In article ,
frijoli wrote:

While I agree you can't always believe the news reports, I'm curious to know
how
many outbreaks the Mercury has had in the last two years versus other ships.
I'm
sure I've heard the Mercury's name several time prior to this event.

Clay
Being a correlation is not causation kind of a guy, I am wondering if
anybody looked into whether this was the same bug not entirely knocked
down or new bugs brought in by the next round of passengers.

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frijoli wrote:
Ray Goldenberg wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:41:02 -0400, frijoli wrote:

Those are just routine inspections though. Not really how many time
they pop up in the new for Noro or the like.

Even from that data it shows they're going down hill.

Hi Clay,

They are far from going downhill. Cruise lines are thrilled with
these types of scores on a ship of this age since the CDC inspections
are very tough. BTW, you should not take news media reports based on
facts. Most of us know they are often not based on reality.
--
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While I agree you can't always believe the news reports, I'm curious to
know how many outbreaks the Mercury has had in the last two years versus
other ships. I'm sure I've heard the Mercury's name several time prior
to this event.

Clay, take a look at the Celebrity board over on cruisecritic, also look
and see if there is a roll call for your sailing. I just took a quick
look over there and it seems there is a lot of noro virus in the local
area near the port.

sue