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"Hundreds on QE2 hit by stomach bug"

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More than 300 passengers and crew on the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 have caught the highly infectious norovirus during a world cruise.
In what health officials have called an unusually large outbreak, nearly 17 per cent of the 1,652 predominantly American passengers on the Cunard Line’s flagship were confined to their cabins for two or three days by the bug that causes vomiting and diarrhoea.The ship left Southampton on January 2 and called at New York six days later, where she picked up new passengers. Medical staff had dealt with 276 sick passengers and 28 crew by the time she docked in San Francisco on Wednesday.
American officials from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) boarded the QE2 to investigate the outbreak and certified that emergency sanitation measures carried out by the crew were satisfactory.

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2007-01-25 16:01:11 · 3 answers · asked by claudia#1 1 in News & Events Media & Journalism

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So I guess your question is HOW can that virus travel so fast or infect so many. My quess it was brought aboard by one or more passengers and it is air borne. If these large amount of people were confined inside because of inclimate weather from time to time it is the same kind of conditions that the way school children give each other bugs. You can wash your hands every 30 feet but if it is airborne you better have masks on.

2007-01-25 16:33:40 · answer #1 · answered by Brick 5 · 0 0

Yes. Scary!

2007-01-26 00:17:08 · answer #2 · answered by Kelley G 2 · 0 0

Were you on it? No! Then you have nothing to be worried about.

2007-01-26 04:51:06 · answer #3 · answered by Mummabear 5 · 0 0

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