300 Passengers Sick On Cruise Ship

Medical staff must meet certain training requirements but they do not have to be certified.

300 passengers sick on cruise ship. About 3 percent or 19 of the 689 crew members on board. From gastro-intestinal bugs to seasickness to spraining an ankle on a rolling ship the chance for a mishap is always there. By Friday the ships medical staff reported 297 of the 1576 passengers on board -- nearly 19 percent -- were ill CDC officials said.

A Caribbean cruise has been cut short after more than 300 people on board the ship began vomiting and suffering from diarrhoea. More than 300 passengers on the cruise ship Oriana have been quarantined in their cabins after a breakout of the highly contagious norovirus. Most cruise ships will have one or two doctors and up to four nurses onboard to treat sick passengers.

Nearly 300 passengers sickened on Royal Caribbean cruise ship. According to the statement 281 of. The Caribbean Princess was carrying more than 3000 passengers.

CNN-- The outbreak of a gastrointestinal illness has spread to more passengers on a US. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship recently returned to Florida after hundreds of its passengers fell sick due to experiencing gastrointestinal illness. Texas -- where the ship sailed out -- bans businesses from requiring vaccinations but the Belize tourism board claimed that 96 percent of the passengers on the cruise and 99 percent of the crew.

A Royal Caribbean cruise ship returned to a Florida port Saturday after hundreds of passengers on board became sick reports said. If you do get sick on the cruise visit the ships doctor and drink plenty of water as dehydration is a common side-effect. The newspaper reports that more than 300 passengers on-board the cruise ship are believed to have been affected with a gastrointestinal illness.

This article is more than 6 years old. During the five-night cruise 332 cases of a gastrointestinal. This has been officially confirmed by Owen Torres a spokesperson for the Royal Caribbean.