Issue Paper Sick Cruises During the recent months, there have been over 1,000 sick passengers and crews aboard different cruise ships. The contracted illness is a Norwalk-like virus which is a number illnesses that can cause diarrhea, stomach pain and vomiting for 24 to 48 hours. The virus can be passed through contaminated food and water, but health officials determined that it was contracted from person-to-person contact on the ship and began with an infected person on previous …showed first 75 words of 523 total…

…showed last 75 words of 523 total…been tried is cleaning and disinfecting the ship. While doing so might help bring the numbers of sick people down, there are still too many sick passengers to stop the investigation. Reference: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,72225,00.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,71878,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/12/02/sick.cruise.carnival.ap/index.html http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2002/2002-11-26-sick-cruises.htm http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/12/12/cruise.ship.sickness/index.html