An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness suspected to be the norovirus has forced a Royal Caribbean cruise ship to return to port two days before the end of its scheduled 10-day voyage.
The Explorer of the Seas, which set out from Cape Liberty, N.J., for St. Maarten in the Caribbean last Tuesday carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew members, was forced to stop midvoyage after more than 300 on board reported symptoms of the virus.
On Saturday, the ship docked in San Juan, P.R., to undergo a deep cleaning and sanitization process. Sick passengers and crew were given over-the-counter medications, to which they were responding well, Janet Diaz, a spokeswoman for Royal Caribbean, told the newspaper The Guardian. In a statement released on Sunday evening, Royal Caribbean said that the number of new instances of illness had "decreased day over day," and that many guests are were up and about.
Even so, as of Monday morning an update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, representatives of which boarded the ship in St. Thomas, V.I., on Sunday, put the number of sick at more than 600. The Explorer is now headed back to New Jersey, two days earlier than originally scheduled. The C.D.C. representatives, including an epidemiologist, are investigating the outbreak and have taken samples to verify the source of the illness.
"After consultation between our medical team and representatives of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we think the right thing to do is to bring our guests home early, and use the extra time to sanitize the ship even more thoroughly," Royal Caribbean stated in the release. "We are sorry for disappointing our guests, and we are taking several steps to compensate them for their inconvenience."
Those steps will include a another "aggressive" sanitizing procedure, the third that the ship has undergone since passengers first began to become ill.
Earlier in January, 66 passengers and two crew members experienced gastrointestinal issues aboard Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas, according to a statement from the company.
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