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Are Cruise Illnesses Common?

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A friend just returned from a Caribbean cruise with Hep A--really suffered, and you're always hearing about Montezuma's Revenge on Mexican cruises. Is it because of workers from third world and people crammed together, or what?

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Oh Yea!! We were on one of the Carnival cruises when lots of people developed Norovirus including my spouse. keep your hands washed and away from your face. Remember every time you go through those buffets just stop and wonder who touched that spoon prior to you and where have their hands been. When a virus(norovirse) becomes bad on the ships they actually close the buffets to people serving themselves and serve the food to you. I prefer this...
We keep the antibacterial soap with us and use it all the time now....
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Anytime you cram a whole bunch of people from different areas together in one place, where they eat and sleep relatively close together, you are going to have some risk of cross infection. Minimize the danger by building up your own immune system before you go ont he trip, and be prepared for what you may confront by asking the travel agency what the risks are. It's really no worse than visiting a hospital or going to a hotel. Don't forget, exotic locations are often the culprit as well.
VERY COMMON!
I have never gotten sick on a cruise, except maybe from eating too much, but that would be my fault.
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Sailing, even in olden times needed some doc or pharmacist mate before it set the sea detail and ventured forth.
It just seems to me that when you get that many people from so many different places all crammed together, germs are bound to spread more easily. Our bodies haven't built up a tolerance for all of them because we aren't around them regularly.