Der Norovirus-Ausbruch lässt fast 100 Passagiere an Bord eines Kreuzfahrtschiffes erkranken

Well at least they can poop and puke overboard.

They sure have my sympathy. I thought I was going to die when I had noro virus. Seriously.

Cannot be as bad as the Netflix Poop Cruise

Lame Pay Wall. It’s a Holland America cruise ship (MS Rotterdam) traveling around the southern Caribbean.

I know some people really enjoy cruises. It’s stories like this that make me never want to go on one

why do outbreaks of this specific virus happen so frequenlty on cruises?

That virus is no joke.

This is one of the many reasons I will never take a cruise.

Worked on ships for years. As a crew member, our mantra was “wash your hands, don’t touch your face”

If you wanna be safe on ships always beware of what you’re touching; high traffic areas, railings, handles, etc. Wash your hands as often as you can.
Ship that big, you’re just asking for germs. All these people traveling from who knows where, with who knows what kinda cleanliness. Go into it on defense, it’s not the ship fault any more than it’s the passengers fault.

Where is the bad news 

Are the standards of these ships really this low ? You hear about this happening all the time year round. I wonder how many old and compromised people it kills aboard each year.