During the week of Dec. 5, the CDC reported 91 cases of norovirus, more commonly known as the stomach flu, which is over double the highest number recorded between 2021 and 2024.

Phoenix Reisen’s MS Artania is sailing through several ports in Norway after nearly one in six passengers have tested for norovirus.

In recent months, several cruise ships have experienced significant outbreaks of the norovirus. This highly infectious and ...

CDC Reports Rise in Norovirus Cases. The CDC has reported 91 outbreaks during the week of December 5, up from an average of 65 during the same period from 2012 to 2020.

The norovirus is a highly contagious virus that is currently the leading cause of vomiting, diarrhea and food-borne illness within the U.S., the CDC says. Based on data gathered by the CDC ...

Norovirus, often coined the "cruise ship virus," causes more than 90% of diarrheal disease outbreaks on cruise ships, according to the CDC. Still, norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships account for ...

A CDC spokesperson said the agency is monitoring norovirus outbreaks through its CaliciNet laboratory database and pointed to a surge of GII.17 strains in Asia and Europe in 2014 that was followed ...

There were 10 gastrointestinal outbreaks in 2019, and 11 each in 2018 and 2017, according to CDC records. Norovirus was also the cause in many of those cases.

The CDC records an outbreak when at least three percent of passengers and crew show symptoms, its vessel sanitation program ...

CDC officials said 83 of the 2,192 passengers on board and 12 of the 953 crew members were sickened. "At Holland America Line, the safety and well-being of our guests and crew is our top priority.