The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stories that the Silver Nova cruise ship operated by Silversea Cruises is experiencing a gastrointestinal (GI) outbreak which has sickened 23 of 633 passengers (3.63%) and 1 of 538 crew members (0.19%). The predominant symptom reported by the CDC is diarrhea.
The CDC has not but recognized the causative agent for the GI outbreak. Sixteen (16) of the final seventeen (17) GI outbreaks on cruise ships, relationship again to the start of final 12 months, have been on account of norovirus (with one case attributable to Salmonella and E. coli). The CDC doesn’t all the time decide the reason for the outbreak which on this case could also be as a result of the cruise ship has not but referred to as on a U.S. port the place stool samples of the affected passengers may be collected and examined.
The Silver Nova is at the moment close to the top of a 16 day, one-way “Easter Cruise” from Callao-Lima to Fort Lauderdale, which calls on Port Everglades tomorrow.
Based on the CDC and the Meals and Drug Administration (FDA), norovirus outbreaks are primarily attributable to consuming contaminated meals and/or ingesting contaminated water.
That is the fourth (4th) GI outbreak on a cruise ship this 12 months. Final 12 months, there have been fourteen (14th) outbreaks with Princess Cruises and Movie star Cruises every experiencing three (3) outbreaks.
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April 15, 2024 Night Replace:
The variety of contaminated passengers elevated to twenty-eight out of 633 (4.42%).
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As a result of the Silver Nova is a brand new cruise ship (with its maiden voyage on August 14, 2023 and christened in January 2024), the ship has not but had a bi-annual sanitation inspection by the CDC.
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The New York Post, reporting on this outbreak, has it precisely right when it writes: “The reason for the outbreak — which has impacted roughly 5% of the ship’s passenger inhabitants — continues to be unknown, however the CDC notes that norovirus outbreaks are primarily attributable to consuming contaminated meals or ingesting contaminated water.”
Picture credit score: Silver Nova – Narwhalian1 – CC BY-SA 4.0 commons / wikimedia; gastrointestinal virus – Dr Graham Beards.
