Once Again, Sickness on a Cruise Ship
November 22nd, 2006 Posted in General, Travel industryI always find it ironic that the people who are the most worried about something bad happening when they travel are the ones most likely to go on a cruise. The thing is, you’re far more likely to get sick or have inadequate medical care on a cruise ship that you are bopping around the cities of Asia or somewhere else. It’s an environment that viruses and bacteria were made for: hundreds of people in a contained environment, floating around in close quarters.
Here we go again: 679 Passengers Fall Ill on Carnival Cruise Ship. Two people died. The cruise line says they didn’t die from the virus, but in the article linked above, the family of one man isn’t going along with it. The really ugly thing is this: “Fitzgerald died on Nov. 10, seven days into a 16-day journey that began in Rome.” So he was dead on the boat for 9 days?
The CDC was called in to investigate, but meanwhile, “Once back in Florida, the ship was scrubbed under the centers’ supervision before heading out for another cruise Tuesday.” The crowd boarding for that cruise really knows how to laugh in the face of danger!
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