Virus Strikes Disney Cruise Ship

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Virus Strikes Disney Cruise Ship

PORT CANAVERAL (WESH.com) -- Officials with Disney Cruise Line confirmed Thursday that about 100 people are sick with a viral infection aboard the Disney Magic. The ship is due to arrive at Port Canaveral Saturday. Both crew members and passengers are reportedly complaining of stomach flu-like symptoms. Disney officials said they notified the US Public Health Service and is now working to prevent the spread of the symptoms. "The safety and comfort of our guests will always remain our highest priority. We maintain very high standards and strict practices relating to the sanitation of our ships," a written statement from Disney Cruise Line said. At Port Everglades, Holland-America dropped off its sick cruise ship Thursday. In the Amsterdam's last four trips, over 500 passengers and crew reported stomach problems consistent with the Norwalk virus. People were warned not to shake hands or touch any food except their own. The majority of passengers didn't get sick, and they said the virus didn't ruin their experience.

 

[mickey04]

Wow, I wonder what caused it.

 

[Maria]

Originally posted by mickey04
Wow, I wonder what caused it.

We had a similar thread, but with tomatoes.... it was salmonella, meaning someone didn´t wash his/her hands after going to the bathroom and then managed people´s food. I could almost bet on that this time again. There could have been anything, but it is always some human mistake... :animwink:

 

[cuteypatooty78]

Isn't it strange how this virus appeared a couple of days after the virus that appeared on the Amsterdam cruise ship? I guess its human error in both cases...kinda scary.

 

[mickey04]

Originally posted by Maria
We had a similar thread, but with tomatoes.... it was salmonella, meaning someone didn´t wash his/her hands after going to the bathroom and then managed people´s food. I could almost bet on that this time again. There could have been anything, but it is always some human mistake... :animwink:

Yeah, I was thinking about the salmonella situation too. I didn't hear that it had been caused by someone not washing their hands before managing food. Gross.:hurl:

 

[The Mom]

It's very hard to pin down the exact organism, and/or method of transmission of something like this without actually taking samples,etc. I also wonder if they have discovered any commonality between the two ships? Did they share crew members, passengers, entertainers, food vendors, water supply, etc?

 

[Maria]

Originally posted by The Mom
It's very hard to pin down the exact organism, and/or method of transmission of something like this without actually taking samples,etc. I also wonder if they have discovered any commonality between the two ships? Did they share crew members, passengers, entertainers, food vendors, water supply, etc?

I was thinking of that also. Maybe they had the same route and were provided some kind of food from the same company, or the guests went to the same places to eat inland.

 

[cymbaldiva]

Hey MKTigg....

I find your new avatar a bit sick and twisted -

I like that - reminds me a bit of myself! :lol:

 

[orangefan15]

Originally posted by cuteypatooty78
Isn't it strange how this virus appeared a couple of days after the virus that appeared on the Amsterdam cruise ship? I guess its human error in both cases...kinda scary.

What gets me is that both are large cruise ship companies....yet only Disney gets nailed with a story on the front page of cnn.com.
Where was the story when the other ship first had illnesses?

 

[TURKEY]

Originally posted by orangefan15
What gets me is that both are large cruise ship companies....yet only Disney gets nailed with a story on the front page of cnn.com.
Where was the story when the other ship first had illnesses?

I remember seeing it on the cnn front page at some point, msnbc had the story on the front page and so did abcnews.

 

[thedisneyfan]

Originally posted by cymbaldiva
Hey MKTigg....

I find your new avatar a bit sick and twisted -

I like that - reminds me a bit of myself! :lol:

Not to get off topic but this avatar was shown the other morning on Live with Regis and Kelly (hey Disney owns the show).

 

[cymbaldiva]

Originally posted by thedisneyfan
Not to get off topic but this avatar was shown the other morning on Live with Regis and Kelly (hey Disney owns the show).

Sorry Man -

I wouldn't know... if I'm home at 9 a.m., I'm watching M*A*S*H re-runs on FX!

 

[mickey04]

I just heard on the news that Disney is going to reimburse all the passengers who got sick.

 

[da1070]

magic cruise....

i read the boards alot but very rarely post anything. this time i thought it might be good to make a comment. the last thing i want is to sound like i want something for nothing because i don't. my family, 8 of us, went on the magic western cruise the last week of october. as most people probably already know that the cruise start and ends on saturday. well friday morning when we were at castaway cay three of the people in my family were feeling really poor. i don't know if it was the same thing but we all felt like somebody hit us in the back of the head with a baseball bat and everytime we ate it kind of felt like we would just blow up or something. what made it weird is if you didn't eat for awhile then you would feel fine and get really hungry but when you ate it came back. this stayed with all three of us for a week after we got off the ship. we never really thought much about it. as a matter of fact we just thought it was from all the salt-water swimming we had been doing at every port of call. the if got into our sinus's or something. i'm not disney crazy like some people but i really do enjoy disney and this was our second 7 day cruise with them. i would get back on this saturday so it hasn't changed my mind about anything. i really wonder how common this kind of thing is and people on cruise ships just don't say anything like my family did. any thought?

 

[WDWSwashbuckler]

i saw this on abc news. It saddened me indeed. Hee hee, anyways, I agree, how come even though it happened to another ship, the media doens't make a big deal out of that? How come they have to launch an assult at disney???

 

[aust]

every ones sick

this sickness thing is really strange
I live in AR. & I personally know 10 people that have had a stomac related virus. Including my sister's and i am just know getting over it and belive me you don't want it:zipit: I had a tempurature of almost 103 degrees
anybody else had it ?

 

[wee-haggis]

I noticed on the News that after last weekends thorough scrubbing of the ship and after taking on new passengers yesterday, Norwalk has been been discovered again with the new passengers!...
This is getting scary!..
Whats next?

 

[thedisneyfan]

The news reported that the new cruising of the Magic now also has an outbreak of illness also! I think that the crews of these ships continue to spread the disease from sailing to sailing.

 

[Mr D]

Disney's security should recheck the employees background a bit more carefully, with my info from other national security websites its being said that the terrorism threat is very real of inflicting sickness in enclosed spaces, where children are, and a high success ratio of infection such as a warm climate. Its actually been recovered in Al Quaeda manuscripts on how to create food poisoning from common kitchen foods and procedures.

Most likely this post will be deleted by the moderators as I know its some strong content.

 

[CP17]

This is a news story today identifing the virus.

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/1102/27cruise.html