The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a Level 1 travel notice for Fiji, advising ...

Norovirus is highly contagious, often spread by food or on surfaces, particularly in crowded conditions. It is a short-lived ...

Private hot tubs in cruise ship staterooms were found to be the source of disease outbreak by the CDC. Here's what the agency ...

Cruise ship passengers splash out big bucks for private hot tubs in their own staterooms all the time — but the Center for Disease Control is warning against the exclusive amenity, calling them a ...

Norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships are spiking in 2025, with 13 reported incidents so far, nearly as many as all of last ...

Despite recent layoffs at Health and Human Services, the CDC confirmed its Vessel Sanitation Program will continue.

The CDC cut employees from its Vessel Sanitation Program this week, even as a cruise ship arrived days ago with another ...

The move eliminated the CDC’s Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice, which housed the cruise ship vessel program, along with others focused on asthma, air quality, lead exposure ...

The CDC may also request that cruise lines disinfect cruise terminals and delay the embarkation of the ship’s next voyage. The VSP investigates gastrointestinal outbreaks on ships sailing in the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is abandoning ship on monitoring cruise-related outbreaks of norovirus and other stomach bugs. The federal government has reportedly fired all full-time ...