Virus Outbreak on Cruise Ship

[drron]

If you are scared of viruses on cruise ships then beware cuddling lambs in the UK.

Sixteen people fall ill after petting farm visit

Cases of parasitic infection linked to animals traced to Edinburgh attraction

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Cruiser Elite]

I don't think there has ever been a human Hanta infection in Australia

And I doubt anybody in the rural industry had ever heard of this prior to current Cruise Ship outbreak.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

You get out of Jimmys taxi after an hour - you get off a plane after 1 to whatever hours - you go home after the farm visit - try getting of a cruise ship when fellow pax are dropping around you.

I’ve done 1 cruise in my life - never again - but each to their own

 

[lovestotravel]

Reason number 102,421,431 to never go on a cruise ship

 

[RooFlyer]

You get out of Jimmys taxi after an hour - you get off a plane after 1 to whatever hours - you go home after the farm visit - try getting of a cruise ship when fellow pax are dropping around you.

On a cruise ship, they put those affected in isolation and a doctor attends to them .

Jimmys taxi, or a plane or a farm visit yes, you go home and then you spread it to everyone else around you, uncontrolled. And then you’re free to get on another plane and spread it around even more!

Better, or worse scenario?

Reason number 102,421,431 to never go on a cruise ship

Yeah, because you never catch viruses anywhere else but on cruise ships. Like the index case in this one didn’t. If they didn’t get on a cruise ship after they were infected, they would’ve gotten on a plane and spread it from there. Would that be a reason not to ever catch a plane?

 

[Cruiser Elite]

So a Cruise Ship safest place on the planet Rooey?

That’s the problem with you Geologists - you have ‘rocks in your heads’!

 

[Quickstatus]

And I doubt anybody in the rural industry had ever heard of this prior to current Cruise Ship outbreak.

And in this case, there is no Hanta in Ushuaia either. The index passenger got it in Patagonia (Northern argentina).
There is an outbreak there with over 100 infections and 32 deaths since June 2025.
The last Hanta super spreader event (34 confirmed infections) was in 2018 near that region as well

The index passenger was a bird watcher. I don't think we can blame bird watching or cruise ships either.

You get out of Jimmys taxi after an hour - you get off a plane after 1 to whatever hours - you go home after the farm visit - try getting of a cruise ship when fellow pax are dropping around you.

The 3 second rule is also a myth. If you drop something it is a myth that bacterial or viral contamination does not occur if you pick up a piece of bread within 3 seconds of dropping it on the floor. You could just touch the door handle of Jimmy's taxi and immediately pick up something from the previous customer (or Jimmy). I would bet that Jimmy does not disinfect the grown up taxi after every customer.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

The good part about expressing an opinion on AFF is that you are guaranteed to be set straight as to exactly where you are wrong

 

[Quickstatus]

You mean the 3 second rule?

 

[RooFlyer]

So a Cruise Ship safest place on the planet Rooey?

That's not your usual thoughtfulness in reply, Cruiser.

Which is the better scenario for virus-carriers I mentioned? Cruise boats, with containment (followed by reporting and publicity and OTT reactions) or planes with no containment and never-hear-a-word-about it?

 

[drron]

And a Spanish woman who flew home from JNB on the same plane that one of the fatal cases from the ship has developed symptoms consistent with hantavirus.

Hantavirus Cruise Ship: Passengers Will Disembark Sunday—Including US Travelers Who Tested Negative (Live Updates)

There are nine U.S. residents being monitored for the illness across six states, though none have shown any signs of illness.

www.forbes.com

 

[kpc]

I will be really interested to see how the 4 Australians get home after they get off the ship in Tenerife. They can't stay there and they are not allowed to fly commercial. Private plane / charter? Who pays? Cruse company? Travel Insursnce? Australian Govt (ie you and me!)?

 

[Aeryn]

Who in their right mind would voluntarily visit a landfill ? Commonsense would tell you it would be teeming with rats and other bacterial nasties. Plenty of safer places to bird watch in South America.

Large cruise ships frequently see norovirus infections at large scale, so the cleanliness and isolation is questionable.

But it seems odd to me that victim zeros wife was just able to leave and travel home after cohabitating with someone who died from a dangerous infectious disease. Unsurprising she tested positive once home.

 

[Quickstatus]

Who in their right mind would voluntarily visit a landfill ?

When that landfill is apparently where you find a very rare bird - Darwin's Caracara

Many on that cruise were also Ornithologists and also visited the same landfill

Unsurprising she tested positive once home.

Apparently she became ill after disembarking from the ship and flew to JNB with the remains of the husband, but was taken off the KLM at JNB airport after the crew thought she was too ill to travel and she died soon after in a Johannesburg hospital.

 

[RooFlyer]

Large cruise ships frequently see norovirus infections at large scale, so the cleanliness and isolation is questionable.

Norovirus is very contagious and will spread quickly before isolation can be started. Nevertheless, here are some stats from 2024 and 2023 -

Case counts in pax generally <6% , in crew <3%..

If you are questioning cruise ship cleanliness, then I'd invite you to have a squiz at airline lounges and airline seats and tables.

Earlier Outbreaks on Cruise Ships in VSP's Jurisdiction

Learn more about earlier outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness on cruise ships.

www.cdc.gov

 

[tgh]

Cruise lines have a vested interest in a healthy ship as the consequences for failure are very costly.
The few occasions that I have been through a working cruise ship kitchen, the place was spotless

 

[boomy]

You get out of Jimmys taxi after an hour - you get off a plane after 1 to whatever hours - you go home after the farm visit - try getting of a cruise ship when fellow pax are dropping around you.

I’ve done 1 cruise in my life - never again - but each to their own

I’m with you on this one. Being stuck with a bunch of strangers on a ship for days, let alone weeks, sounds like a nightmare. Maybe it’s an old ppl thing I dunno that’s why I also avoid organised tours unless it’s in a country that made it impossible to travel solo.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

boomy next time in OT remind me to tell you about the ‘mature lady’ sitting behind us on Rocky Mountaineer who coughed her guts out non stop for 3 days and lo and behold the Ette comes down with Whooping Cough