Ponch wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:00:03 GMT, Kurt Ullman
> spewed forth the following crap:
>
> Cruise ship illness is no joke though. Can sure spoil a lifetime's
> worth of vacation.
Hardly. Spoil one trip, perhaps.
> I would say about half of the people that cruise
> only do it once in their lifetime and it's a lifetime dream for them.
Those are unlikely to waste their time in, or know about, this
newsgroup.
> Just need to stay healthy and be damn sure not to go between April and
> October.
The hurricane season is between June and November, and is in the
Caribbean only. That's only one speck in the entire globe.
I am quite sure the Norwalk virus has taken some victims on the Pacific
Princess, which is 10 days into the cruise, at sea to Shanghai.
First, there was the extraordinary precaution of having crew members
serve EVERYTHING in the buffet line, include even pads of butter
wrapped in foil.
Then, the ambulance was seen taking a passenger off Nga Trang,
Vietnam, and in Hong Kong, a crew member was making random
checks of passengers' temperature going on and off the cruise ship.
At dinner tonight, the dinner rolls were no longer on dining tables,
lest passengers would touch the rolls. They were served by servers
taking rolls around tables.
There has been NO announcements about actual cases, yet. But
the precautionary steps seems to point to an outbreak.
-- Bob.
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