More than 100 passengers and over a dozen crew members have fallen ill with norovirus aboard the Caribbean Princess during a 13-day voyage through the Eastern Caribbean. The Princess Cruises ship departed Port Everglades, Florida, last week and is scheduled to arrive at Port Canaveral in the state Monday. At the time of the outbreak, the vessel was carrying 3,116 passengers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 102 passengers became sick with the highly contagious stomach virus. In addition, 13 of the 1,131 crew members onboard also reported illness. Those affected experienced typical norovirus symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea, according to health officials. The virus is known for spreading rapidly in close-contact environments such as cruise ships, where shared dining spaces and frequently touched surfaces can make containment difficult once an outbreak begins.

    • cattywampas@lemmy.world
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      Non-story. Norovirus happens all the time, especially on cruise ships. This is a case of the public being highly sensitive to news stories that are relevant in the current zeitgeist. Happens all the time with airplane incidents.

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        The virus is usually spread by the fecal–oral route.[3] This may be through contaminated food or water or person-to-person contact. But it’s still F-ing gross

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            The epstein class. You know, the same people who decided covid was an existential threat to humanity requiring lockdowns, experimental gene therapy injections and the largest transfer of wealth in human history(transfered to them unsurprisingly).

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              The COVID-19 vaccine was one of the most remarkable achievements in human history and, ironically due to your ignorance, is the only vaccine in history that does NOT change DNA. We’re now finding it works to unleash the immune system against cancer, giving 50% increased treatment effect and survival.

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                Yea, it was SO remarkable that they tried to hide the data on it for 75 years. Really SCREAMS remarkable. And wow, I didn’t realize reverse transcription of mRNA simply didn’t exist. Thats crazy.

                It certainly did “unleash” the immune system when it comes to cancer tho, as we saw with all of those doctors coming forward discussing the explosion of “Turbo cancer” they were seeing amongst their “vaccinated” patients.

                Remember when it first came out and they said it was 100% effective…and then it was 99%…98%…

                The only vaccine SO effective it stops transmission and infection right?

                Oh no wait…it doesn’t do either of those. It “reduces symptoms”…because THATS what a vaccine is supposed to do…right? Thats how vaccines work?

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                  Turbo cancer

                  LMAO who comes up with this shit? It sounds just so ridiculous. I looked up the term and found this: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10622962/

                  In the months following publication, we noticed that our case report has gained significant public attention, particularly on social media platforms. More specifically, our case report has been largely misinterpreted and used as a study providing evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccination can trigger a phenomenon which has non-scientifically been referred to as “turbo cancer”. First of all, we wish to unequivocally disassociate ourselves from this term. In our case report, there is not a single reference to a condition called “turbo cancer”, nor do we recognize it as a legitimate medical term.

                  So yeah, if you could please “do your own research” with a simple search that took 5 seconds, you could save yourself a lot of stress and anxiety. Feel free to read the rest of the text to see that no link was established between the vaccine and “turbo cancer” (I’m laughing just typing that out).

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                The only thing “remarkable” about MAGA jabs is how many morons volunteered to take the experimental gene therapy injection thay was rushed through all its safety trials because they got a “free donut”.

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                    Im sorry, which part of what I said is factually wrong? Or are you resulting to insults because you cant refute what I said?

                    Ad hominem much? Must be the post MAGA jab brain fog ive heard so much about.

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              Wow, there’s still a few of you left. I had thought you were all clustered down by the bayou or had died from your own abject stupidity. Won’t be long before your delusions take care of it anyway.

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      Norovirus is normal, it went thru my boot camp division. Its just the normal “cruise ship flu” that always happens and sucks.

      Hantavirus is not normal, especially the Andres variant that was on that other cruise ship.

      That fucker has like 40% lethality and while transmission window is short, just walking withing 4 feet of someone whose not even exhibiting systems is enough to infect.

      I can’t remember the incubation time for sure, but I think liken4-6 weeks?

      And you just fucking know when the Americans from that ship come back, they’re not going to have to do quarantine or anything.

      Have you even looked into it?

      Or are you wanting for Lil Bobby Kennedy to put the raccoon penis down and investigate?

      https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/05/09/hantavirus-cruise-passengers-will-disembark-sunday-latest-updates/?streamIndex=0

      This isn’t “nothing” and honeyits weird more people aren’t freaking out.

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      Hantacruises are rare, you gotta buy your tickets way in advanceand they’re kinda pricey. Norocruise is like the Southwest of the seas, you just cram in with humanity and hope you don’t die.