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A Trifecta For MSC Cruises
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (March 17, 2008) – MSC Cruises continues to set the highest standards for cruise ship excellence. For an extraordinary third time, the MSC Lirica has earned a perfect score in a surprise inspection by U.S. Public Health (USPH), a rare achievement, according to industry experts.
Conducting a surprise inspection Wednesday in San Juan, [...]
Freedom of the Seas has Another Norovirus Attack
MIAMI (AP) - The world’s largest cruise ship was held in port Monday for intensive cleaning after a second outbreak of gastrointestinal illness in two voyages sickened 106 people.
More than 380 passengers and crewmembers aboard Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas were sickened by norovirus during a Nov. 26-Dec. 3 Caribbean cruise. The ship was [...]
Nearly 230 Sick on Mariner of the Seas
PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. - Nearly 230 people aboard a cruise ship fell ill with a gastrointestinal illness during a weeklong Caribbean voyage, the company said Saturday.
The illness, believed to be a norovirus brought onto the Mariner of the Seas by a passenger, struck 221 of the ship’s 3,660 passengers and six of its 1,202 crew [...]
Celebrity Mercury Hit By Norovirus in Alaska
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — For the second time this summer, a wave of illness believed to be from norovirus has hit a Celebrity Cruise ship along the Alaska coastal route, health officials said.
Kevin Carlisle, a Health Canada environmental health officer, said nausea, vomiting and diarrhea afflicted 105 of the 2,282 passengers and 20 of the [...]
New Virus Outbreak on Cruise Ship
A cruise liner is back in port having been hit by a vomiting bug for the second time in a month. More than 100 people aboard the Fred Olsen liner Black Prince fell ill with the Norovirus during a trip from Edinburgh to Greenland and Iceland which departed on June 22. The ship has now [...]
Jury: Pentair Must Pay $193M for Cruise Ship Outbreak
A jury has ordered Pentair Inc. to pay $193 million to a cruise line for commercial damages in a 1994 case involving an outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease. The case is against a Pentair subsidiary, Essef Corp., which Pentair acquired in 1999, after the event occurred. Golden Valley-based Pentair (NYSE: PNR), makes water [...]
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