I don't suspect it, I KNOW it. Here's another thread about noro on the Dream and while it contains a bit too much info (mostly just posters bickering), starting on page 2, lbgraves brings up a Wonder cruise from January 2010. I was on that cruise and on the same deck as her friends. It was horrible, there were tons of sick passengers and crew (I can't find the thread for the crew info), no one was helping us and I can assure you that there were enough people sick that it should have been reported to the CDC. It wasn't. They told me NOT to bring my son to the infirmary after my daughter was seen for a GI illness; they just gave me medicine for him.
Then, here's a thread I started on CC about that cruise. It was before I realized DISboards existed:
One poster mentions in there that they got the number from the CDC and they were low. I assure you they were NOT. I saw at least 10 sick, vomiting people in the infirmary when I was there with my daughter and another handful the next day. I can only imagine if there were that many there in the short time I was there, plus I personally know that they told us not to bring our son in so he wasn't counted, there had to have been a LOT of sick people on that ship.
Long story short (too late
), DCL is not above-board when reporting illnesses to the CDC. Maybe none of them are; I don't know, we've never had this problem on another cruise line. DCL isn't any cleaner than the ships I've been on with three other cruise lines and considering the number of kids, there is no legitimate way they've kept themselves off the CDC VSP list for the last decade. Every other line I can think of has ended up on it from time to time; something smells fishy in regards to DCLs handling of reportable illnesses.
I've donned my flame suit.
Carry on.