{"id":740169,"date":"2026-07-03T04:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740169\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T04:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:02:16","slug":"more-than-100-passengers-on-us-cruise-ship-sick-from-suspected-norovirus-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740169\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 passengers on US cruise ship sick from suspected norovirus | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 100 passengers and about 23 crew members on a Princess Cruises<\/a> ship fell sick from suspected norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), marking the third outbreak to hit one of the company\u2019s watercrafts this year.<\/p>\n

The Ruby Princess vessel set sail on 12 June from San Francisco, bound for Alaska and Canada, with a scheduled return on 2 July. More than two weeks into the journey, CDC officials received a report of an outbreak, which is defined by a threshold of 3% or more of passengers. Aboard the ship were 3,032 passengers and 1,144 crew members, per the CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ship was docked<\/a> in San Francisco on Thursday for disinfecting.<\/p>\n

Norovirus is highly contagious and can induce diarrhea and vomiting. It can spread when tiny particles of fecal matter or vomit get into the mouth. Hand-to-mouth contact with contaminated objects can also facilitate the illness\u2019s spread.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Princess Cruises did not immediately respond to a request for comment on what may have led to the outbreak.<\/p>\n

Health officials recommend regular handwashing with soap and water, particularly after using the toilet or before eating, to curb germ sharing.<\/p>\n

Cruise ships, where guests reside in close proximity, can be an incubator of illnesses. This year has seen six other norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships.<\/p>\n

On the Ruby Princess, the ill passengers and crew have been isolated as the vessel is disinfected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 100 passengers and about 23 crew members on a Princess Cruises ship fell sick from suspected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-740169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}