CDC reports 21st cruise ship norovirus outbreak this year, with nearly 100 people infected

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed different norovirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship.

Aida Cruises’ AIDAdiva cruise vessel was deed with a norovirus outbreak that sickened astir 100 passengers during its Nov. 10–Dec. 16 voyage.

The cruise notified the CDC of the outbreak connected Nov. 30, according to the agency’s report.

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The vas departed from Hamburg, Germany and was heading to England, the U.S., Mexico, and Costa Rica, according to CruiseMapper.

Ninety-five passengers and six unit reported diarrhea and vomiting, the CDC's information shows.

Aida Cruises’ AIDAdiva was deed by a norovirus outbreak during its astir month-long voyage, leaving astir 100 passengers sick. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg)

Over 2,000 passengers, positive 640 unit members, were connected board.

In effect to the outbreak, Aida Cruises said it accrued cleaning and disinfection efforts crossed the ship. It besides isolated sick passengers and crew, and collected stool samples for testing.

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"Seasonal unwellness peaks betwixt November and April, and the AIDAdiva study reflects corruption patterns connected land," an AIDA spokesperson told USA TODAY. 

"Therefore, we’ve added much hygiene protocols onboard, and cases are already going down."

Ninety-five passengers and six unit members reported symptoms, according to CDC data. (iStock)

The cruise enactment besides consulted with CDC Vessel Sanitation Program officials astir sanitation procedures and lawsuit reporting.

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Scott Weisenberg, M.D., aesculapian manager of the NYU Langone Infectious Disease Associates and the NYU Travel Medicine Program, antecedently told Fox News Digital that the microorganism is highly contagious — and that it tin dispersed rapidly successful crowded settings specified arsenic cruise ships.

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"If radical person acute vomiting, they should debar nationalist areas, since adjacent if they don't interaction anything, the microorganism tin dispersed done the air," helium said.

As a effect of the outbreak, enhanced sanitation measures were implemented connected board, on with isolating those who became ill. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg)

Weisenberg besides noted that due hygiene plays a cardinal relation successful preventing transmission. Shared surfaces tin easy go contaminated, putting anyone who touches them astatine hazard of infection.

He added that washing hands with soap and h2o offers amended extortion than utilizing alcohol-based sanitizers.

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This latest incidental adds to a increasing fig of norovirus outbreaks reported connected cruise ships this year.

There person present been a full of 21 outbreaks, according to the CDC.

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Fox News Digital reached retired to Aida Cruises for comment.