Norovirus is highly contagious, often spread by food or on surfaces, particularly in crowded conditions. It is a short-lived ...

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

Despite recent layoffs at Health and Human Services, the CDC confirmed its Vessel Sanitation Program will continue.

A cruise ship that docks in Southampton has been given a hygiene rating by the CDC. The Norwegian Star, which sailed from Southampton on May 5 for a 12-night British Isles voyage, received a rating of ...

which included cutting around 2,400 employees of the CDC. An official for the Department of Health and Human Services claimed that the cruise ship work will be able to continue, since many ...

The CDC cut employees from its Vessel Sanitation Program this week, even as a cruise ship arrived days ago with another ...

The CDC may also request that cruise lines disinfect cruise terminals and delay the embarkation of the ship’s next voyage. The VSP investigates gastrointestinal outbreaks on ships sailing in the ...

Cruise ship passengers warned of latest norovirus threat after outbreaks - Norovirus is the most common ailment tracked on ...

The move eliminated the CDC’s Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice, which housed the cruise ship vessel program, along with others focused on asthma, air quality, lead exposure ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is abandoning ship on monitoring cruise-related outbreaks of norovirus and other stomach bugs. The federal government has reportedly fired all full-time ...

Even after staff reductions, norovirus outbreaks continue to be reported from cruise ships - most recently from Viking ...

The CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP), which inspects cruise ships, has been impacted by recent staffing cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services. While ship inspections will ...