http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/16/us/cruise-ship-illness/index.html
A 5,000 passanger Royal Caribbean cruise, Indepedence of the Seas, was stuck by a stomach virus over the past week. According to a spokesperson for Royal Caribbean, 332 passengers fell ill, and were treated quickly. But according to Tracy Flores, a mother of a 15 year old who contracted the virus while on the cruise, the experience “was just terrifying” and there were “plenty of people who were too sick to even make it down to the medical facility.” The spokesperson for Royal Caribbean promises that the ship will be throughouly cleaned before it embarks next and that everyone should was their hands to prevent something like this happening in the future.
I feel very bad for all of the people that were sick, and being sick in the middle of the ocean sounds really scary and unenjoyable. I hope that Royal Caribbean does a better job with sanitation on their next cruise.
Things like this happen on cruises all the time, and usually get out of hand very quickly because everybody is in such a small, contained area. There was an story a few years ago about a cruise ship that broke down and disease began to pop up everywhere because of it.
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