The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) experiences 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 yr, have been resulting from 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 known as on a U.S. port the place stool samples of the affected passengers will be collected and examined.
The Silver Nova is at the moment close to the tip 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 consuming contaminated water.
That is the fourth (4th) GI outbreak on a cruise ship this yr. Final yr, there have been fourteen (14th) outbreaks with Princess Cruises and Superstar 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%).
April 15, 2024 Replace:
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.
Picture credit score: Silver Nova – Narwhalian1 – CC BY-SA 4.0 commons / wikimedia; gastrointestinal virus – Dr Graham Beards.
