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The Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ) report that 118 of the 2,730 passengers aboard the Celebrity Solstice cruise ship have reported to the ship's medical facility with vomiting, hotels key west florida diarrhea and other symptoms of gastrointestinal illness.
Pursuant to the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program, environmental health officers and an epidemiologist will board the cruise ship, once it returns to Fort Lauderdale tomorrow, in order assess the outbreak and the cruise line's response activities.
It has been our experience over the years that the official CDC numbers of ill passengers and crewmembers is usually less than the true number of those afflicted with viral illnesses. This is because many sick passengers know that they will be quarantined in their cabins or they simply do not want to wait in the long lines outside of the ship infirmary. Often, sick crewmembers are pressed to work notwithstanding their sicknesses.
This is not the first time the Solstice hotels key west florida has experienced an outbreak this year. In January and February, there were norovirus outbreaks on the Solstice hotels key west florida with one passenger dying due to exposure to the virus.
Not all gastrointestinal outbreaks are documented with the CDC. The cruise lines do not have to report the outbreaks when the cruise ship does not call on a U.S. port. In September, norovirus broke out on Celebrity's Eclipse sailing out of Southampton, England. You will find no mention of it in the official CDC database.
Yes, I agree that if the toilets are scrubbed down on a daily basis with a REAL disinfectant, it would keep this virus at least to a minimum. Perhaps it would lessen the chances hotels key west florida of yet another new guest entering hotels key west florida that stateroom ("sick bay") becoming ill and perpetuating this virus again and again. The other factor is grounding these "sick" ships for a week to cleanse them but we know this will never happen. With the large revenue this industry generates hotels key west florida it can't afford to do this on a semi-regular basis. My husband and I are going on another Celebrity Cruise in Feb. 2012 and hope that this will be all over with by then. We have been most fortunate on their ships to have stayed healty. So you're hotels key west florida sick for a few days, the way they see it is this too will pass!!!
We traveled on the Celebrity Solstice on the Transatlatic from November 28 through December 11.We boarded in Barcelona Spain and before boarding we notified that there was a virus and they were sanitizing and notified we can make other arrangements and reschedule our trip. Once we arrive in Barcelona there was no option but to board the ship. We were far from home. The sixth day of the cruise I was sick with the virus. A nurse came to my cabin and gave me an injection and sent liquids to my room and I was quarantined for 30 hours and missed my tour of the Azores. My husband also had the virus a couple of days later but not as intense as mine. He was also quarantined but not as long as I was. We both did not feel well for many days after the virus. My husband lost 5 pounds on a cruise. We usually gain weight on a cruise. hotels key west florida We were looking forward to disembarking from the ship in Ft. Lauderdale. On many of our other trips we felt sad to leave the ship. We have reached Elite Status.
hotels key west florida I had been hearing rumors of people being sick, and wasn't sure of the truth to it until I became violently ill early this morning (our disembarkation day). I'm curious if anyone else was sick? If so, have you been diagnosed with norovirus? I am wondering if it was a norovirus or food poisoning from dinner on the 25th. I had the pot au feu.
My family is currently on the celebrity solstice, my daughter and nanny are both ill and in quarantine! the staff has been horribly rude, scared my daughter to death i'm trying to get my family off this ship. The security officer assaulted me and my family. I'm going to be pressing charges against Celebrity and their security officer Guy Sele .
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