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Default Over 600 passengers hit by gastrointestinal illness,ending Caribbean cruise

Kingston, Jamaica: The Royal Caribbean cruise line on Sunday
ended a ship's 10-day trip in the Caribbean early after hundreds
of passengers and crew members were sickened with a
gastrointestinal illness.

The Miami-based company made the announcement a few hours after
officials from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
boarded the Explorer of the Seas during its US Virgin Islands
port call to investigate the illness and evaluate the outbreak
response.

"New reports of illness have decreased day-over-day, and many
guests are again up and about. Nevertheless, the disruptions
caused by the early wave of illness means that we were unable to
deliver the vacation our guests were expecting," Royal Caribbean
Cruises said in a statement.

The decision to end the trip came after consultation between CDC
officials and members of the company's medical team, the company
said.

The CDC said early on Monday that 564 of the 3050 passengers
aboard the 15-deck ship reported getting sick during the cruise
that left Cape Liberty, New Jersey, on Tuesday.
Forty-seven crew members also reported feeling ill, according to
Bernadette Burden, a spokeswoman for the CDC.

Tests would have to confirm what caused the outbreak, but fast-
spreading norovirus is often to blame for similar symptoms
sweeping closed quarters like those on cruise ships.

Royal Caribbean said special cleaning products and disinfectants
proven to kill norovirus were being used to clean ship before it
returned to the US.

It said a full sanitisation program would be carried out after
the Explorer of the Seas reached its home port on Wednesday.

Janet Diaz, a company spokeswoman, said CDC representatives
boarded the Explorer of the Seas during the afternoon when it
docked in St. Thomas, the main island of the US Virgin Islands.

During the previous port call in Puerto Rico, the ship underwent
"extensive and thorough sanitising" to help prevent more people
from getting sick, she said.

Passengers and crew who fell ill have "responded well to over-
the-counter medication being administered onboard the ship,"
Diaz said.

On Friday, an Explorer of the Seas passenger named Arnee Dodd
tweeted that she had fallen ill aboard the ship and was
quarantined with the other sick people.

The Connecticut woman wrote that ship employees "put a lock down
on food & are constantly cleaning everything."

Royal Caribbean said it was "taking several steps" to compensate
passengers for the shortened trip.

It also sought to assure customers scheduled for the ship's next
voyage that "all possible measures will have been taken to
prevent further problems."

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/over-600-
passengers-hit-by-gastrointestinal-illness-ending-caribbean-
cruise-20140128-hva40.html

Perhaps you should stop hiring third world employees with no
concept of sanitation or cleanliness.

 




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