A norovirus outbreak has sickened more than 100 people on an Aida Cruises ship, according to an update from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The latest outbreak was confirmed on the AIDAdiva cruise ship, which is on a 133-day world cruise that began on Nov. 10 in Hamburg, Germany. The outbreak was reported on Nov. 30, which was posted online by the agency on Dec. 4.
The CDC said that 95 passengers out of 2,007 and six crew members out of 640 were sickened in the outbreak. The primary symptoms of noroviruses are vomiting and diarrhea, it said.
Aida Cruises told the CDC that it would increase its cleaning and disinfection procedures, collect stool samples from illness cases for testing, isolate sick passengers and crew members, and consult with the CDC’s cruise ship team….