115 People Get Sick Aboard Cruise Ship in Norovirus Outbreak: CDC

About this episode

The episode discusses a norovirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that has affected 115 people, following the resolution of a hantavirus situation on another ship.

Just as the hantavirus situation was resolved aboard the MV Hondius, another cruise liner was hit with a massive viral outbreak. The silver lining here, though, is that the virus in question isn’t as bad as hantavirus, which has a mortality rate of 30–50 percent. The new ship, according to the CDC, had an outbreak of the norovirus, with 115 people falling ill already. Let’s go through the details.

Topics covered

• norovirus
• cruise ship
• health outbreak
• CDC
• hantavirus
• public health

Keywords

• norovirus
• cruise ship
• CDC
• hantavirus
• viral outbreak
• public health
• illness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CDC

Places: MV Hondius, cruise ship

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