AT least seventy people on a month-long cruise have been sickened by a stomach-churning virus that left them vomiting and with uncontrollable bowels. Trapped travelers waited in horror as norovirus tore through their Princess Cruises ship in the final weeks of a lengthy journey from Singapore to California . At least 55 of the 1,822 passengers caught the virus, and 15 of the 907-person crew was also left painfully ill, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Most of them suffered from diarrhea and vomiting, which are expected from the inflammatory virus. The virus erupted through the Coral Princess, which launched on October 17 and stopped by Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Japan before stopping in Hawaii on November 10. The ship returned to Los Angeles on November 17 and is now being disinfected and tested for the virus.
read more in health Princess Cruises also collected infected stool samples for testing purposes as they investigate what happened. According to the CDC, most norovirus cases cause one to three days of intestinal fury, and victims can be infectious for days after this. It also can trigger fever, headache, and painful aching in the arms and legs.
Norovirus is often called the "stomach flu," but the infection is normally foodborne and can spread rapidly through cruise ship buffets and raw seafood. Most read in Health Those affected normally have to wait in anguish for the symptoms to pass and focus on trying to keep liquids down. People can spread th.