Norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships are spiking in 2025, with 13 reported incidents so far, nearly as many as all of last ...

Outbreaks are tracked by the CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP). Recently, the the VSP was impacted by government staffing ...

Norovirus has been linked to twelve outbreaks on cruise ships in 2025, sickening nearly 1,500 people, according to CDC data.

A “newly dominant strain” of norovirus has increased outbreaks of the stomach bug onboard cruise ships, says a US public ...

Norovirus cases on cruise ships are well on track to exceed last year's number just four months into 2024 - and experts say a ...

The CDC reports that a "newly dominant" norovirus strain might be causing increased outbreaks on cruise ships, with 10 of 13 ...

For comparison, there were 18 in all of 2024 and 14 the year prior, with norovirus listed as the causative agent in 15 and 13 of those, respectively. With the CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP ...

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