{"id":117853,"date":"2026-01-14T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117853\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:56:31","slug":"81-passengers-suffer-gastrointestinal-illness-aboard-holland-america-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117853\/","title":{"rendered":"81 passengers suffer ‘gastrointestinal illness’ aboard Holland America cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 90 people aboard a Holland America cruise liner based in Florida suffered “symptoms of gastrointestinal illness” from a norovirus outbreak, forcing a “comprehensive sanitization of the ship,” officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Rotterdam had pushed out of Fort Lauderdale on Dec. 28 before it returned Friday, ending a journey that sickened 81 of the ship’s 2,593 passengers and eight members of the 1,005 crew, Holland America and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <\/a>said.<\/p>\n

“During its previous voyage, a number of guests onboard Rotterdam reported symptoms of gastrointestinal illness. The cases were mostly mild and quickly resolved,” the cruise line’s statement said. <\/p>\n

“The health of our guests and crew is a top priority and consistent with CDC protocols, we conducted a comprehensive sanitization of the ship when the cruise ended Friday in Fort Lauderdale.” <\/p>\n

The norovirus outbreak had predominant symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, according to the CDC. <\/p>\n

The crew collected stool specimens and isolated ill passengers and crew members, the CDC said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is the second norovirus outbreak aboard the same ship, the Rotterdam, within 11 months.<\/p>\n

Days after it push off out of Fort Lauderdale on Feb. 2<\/a>, 169 people were reported ill on board.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Senior Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n

Meriam Bouarrouj contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 90 people aboard a Holland America cruise liner based in Florida suffered “symptoms of gastrointestinal illness” from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-117853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}