{"id":264816,"date":"2026-05-09T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264816\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:18:21","slug":"over-100-fall-ill-due-to-norovirus-outbreak-on-cruise-from-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264816\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 fall ill due to norovirus outbreak on cruise from Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 9, 2026 at 9:56 AM<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 people fell ill due to a norovirus outbreak aboard a Caribbean Princess cruise ship that health officials say departed from Fort Lauderdale on April 29.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 More than 100 people fell ill due to a norovirus outbreak aboard a Caribbean Princess cruise ship that health officials say departed from Fort Lauderdale on April 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cruise ship is scheduled to return to Port Everglades on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vessel-sanitation\/cruise-ship-outbreaks\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vessel-sanitation\/cruise-ship-outbreaks\/index.html\">U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> officials said 102 passengers and 13 crew members became ill and have since been isolated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cruise line also confirmed it disinfected all areas of the ship and increased sanitizing procedures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CDC officials say this is the fourth gastrointestinal illness outbreak reported on a cruise ship so far this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/16\/more-than-150-people-fall-ill-on-princess-cruise-ship-that-departed-from-port-everglades\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/16\/more-than-150-people-fall-ill-on-princess-cruise-ship-that-departed-from-port-everglades\/\">more than 150 people fell ill<\/a> on a Princess cruise ship that also departed from Port Everglades.<\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 9, 2026 at 9:56 AM More than 100 people fell ill due to a norovirus outbreak aboard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-264816","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\/264816","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=264816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}