{"id":193411,"date":"2026-03-16T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193411\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:44:07","slug":"more-than-150-people-fall-ill-on-princess-cruise-ship-that-departed-from-port-everglades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193411\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 150 people fall ill on Princess cruise ship that departed from Port Everglades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 16, 2026 at 7:41 AM<\/p>\n<p>More than 150 people fall ill on Princess cruise ship  More than 150 passengers on a Princess cruise ship fell ill last week after a norovirus outbreak on board. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 More than 150 passengers on a Princess cruise ship fell ill last week after a norovirus outbreak on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Star Princess ship departed from Port Everglades on March 7 and returned on Saturday after a seven-day voyage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The first reports of the breakout occurred last Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vessel-sanitation\/cruise-ship-outbreaks\/star-princess-march-2026.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vessel-sanitation\/cruise-ship-outbreaks\/star-princess-march-2026.html\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>, say 104 guests and 49 crew members reported symptoms of gastrointestinal illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There were 4,307 guests and 1,561 crew members on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cruise line told the CDC that they increased cleaning and disinfection procedures as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the CDC, vomiting is a common sign of norovirus, along with \u201cdiarrhea, muscle ache, headache, abdominal cramp, or fever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 16, 2026 at 7:41 AM More than 150 people fall ill on Princess cruise ship More than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-193411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193411","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=193411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}