Norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships are spiking in 2025, with 16 reported incidents so far, nearly as many as all of last year. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A spotlight ...

“I look at a cruise ship as really kind of a perfect storm for a number of environmental factors,” Winslow said. However, norovirus outbreaks on cruises comprise only 1% of all those reported .

Norovirus, the "cruise ship virus" Princess Cruises also dealt with a norovirus outbreak this month on its Ruby Princess ship during a cruise that started on Dec. 2 and ended on Wednesday.

Does the idea of a cruise not float your boat because of all the tales of passenger woe floating around the blogosphere?

Norovirus cases aboard cruise ships were on a steady decline between 2006 and 2019, according to CDC data. When the Covid pandemic hit, the CDC made a travel health notice advising against cruise ...

P&O Cruises also reported an outbreak on its Arcadia cruise ship this year. The CDC's tally of norovirus outbreaks so far confirmed on cruise ships in 2023 is already higher than any annual ...

Travellers planning to set sail this season can rest a little easier—cruise ships aren't the norovirus breeding grounds ...

More than 200 cruise ship passengers were infected with norovirus on a transatlantic voyage that is currently still at sea. Here's what to know about the illness.

According to data from the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program, the number of norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships docking at U.S. ports had years of steady decline after 2015.Overall rates of acute ...

However, if 2025 is seeing higher reported cases of norovirus on land, you can expect cruise ship cases to rise accordingly.

Norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships have skyrocketed this year. On a Celebrity Cruises voyage in May, 7% or 152 of the 2,144 passengers were infected, and 2.6% or 25 of the 963 crew members ...

Are cruise ship norovirus outbreaks on the rise? The recent outbreaks represent an increase from before COVID-19 shut down the cruise industry for over a year. There were 10 gastrointestinal ...