Cunard cruise lines, Queen Elizabeth, is the third norovirus outbreak in March
At least 84 passengers were stricken with norovirus during a 36 day cruise to the South Pacific on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth, according to a KTLA.com report Tuesday.
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Cunard, the cruise ship line says only 4% of the more than 1900 passengers were sickened.
This most recent outbreak follows two others that occurred during the month of March. Last Friday, it was reported that 121 passengers and crew were taken ill on Royal Caribbean’s Vision of the Seas.
A third outbreak in March, on Princess Cruises’ Ruby Princess, affected over six percent of passengers and crew — or 276 out of a total ship population of 4,300 — on a 7-night Caribbean cruise.
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