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Why do germs, diseases spread on cruises?
Key takeaways
- Last week, yet another cruise ship, a Caribbean Princess with 3,100 passengers on board, reported a norovirus outbreak.
- The apparent recent surge in sicknesses aboard cruise liners prompts the question: Are cruises breeding grounds for disease?
- Cruises are semi-enclosed environments, explains the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where it s easy for highly contagious diseases to spread.
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Last week, yet another cruise ship, a Caribbean Princess with 3,100 passengers on board, reported a norovirus outbreak.
The apparent recent surge in sicknesses aboard cruise liners prompts the question: Are cruises breeding grounds for disease?
Cruises are semi-enclosed environments, explains the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where it s easy for highly contagious diseases to spread. People from all over the world, some of whom may have brought a virus on board, are constantly mixing and interacting in small, poorly ventilated spaces. They re also spending a long period of time in the same enclosed area, days or weeks at a time.
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