Sarangel
<font color=red><font color=navy>Rumor has it ...<
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- Jan 18, 2000
Other sources say the number taken ill was 25 this last trip & 275 the trip before.Disney Cruise Line said Monday that several dozen travelers and crewmembers on its ship Magic are complaining of a vicious stomach ailment, Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Aboard the same oceanliner last week, a similar illness laid low more than 300 people.
That comes in the wake of a series of health problems aboard the cruise ship Amsterdam, which is operated by Holland America Line. On that vessel, more than 500 people have reported severe stomach ailments, stemming from four separate trips.
Investigators believe that in both cases the highly contagious illness was brought on board by a passenger, and wasn't caused by shipboard sanitary problems. Still, the outbreaks draw attention to the system for ship inspections. These two ships passed their most recent health inspections, which are conducted by the federal government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Several other ships are still sailing that have failed at least one health inspection this year, including two that failed twice.
In general, ship inspection scores have been rising in recent years as new state-of-the-art ships replace older ones. "The number of outbreaks related to food and water isn't at nearly the rate it was 10 years ago," says David Forney of the CDC. Results are posted at www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp.
Sarangel