Information I found on how the CDC got involved with the cruise industry.

[insureman]

I'm not sure if anyone is interested but after I was thinking on how the CDC got involved with cruise industry I ran across this document. If anyone wants to look at it also here is an excerpt from the CDC's 2007 pdf .

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/docs/jeh/2007/oct_2007_beaumier.pdf
"In the early 1970s, outbreaks on cruise ships of diarrheal disease associated with foodborne and waterborne transmission led to the creation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) unique environmental health program: the Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) (Merson, Hughes, Wood, Yashuk, & Wells, 1975). Today, although diarrheal-disease outbreaks on cruise ships are often associated with person-to-person contact, VSP’s mission remains to assist the cruise ship industry with the prevention and control of gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses and to promote public health and environmental sanitation programs."

 

[wombat_5606]

I'm not sure if anyone is interested but after I was thinking on how the CDC got involved with cruise industry I ran across this document. If anyone wants to look at it also here is an excerpt from the CDC's 2007 pdf .

https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/docs/jeh/2007/oct_2007_beaumier.pdf
"In the early 1970s, outbreaks on cruise ships of diarrheal disease associated with foodborne and waterborne transmission led to the creation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) unique environmental health program: the Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) (Merson, Hughes, Wood, Yashuk, & Wells, 1975). Today, although diarrheal-disease outbreaks on cruise ships are often associated with person-to-person contact, VSP’s mission remains to assist the cruise ship industry with the prevention and control of gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses and to promote public health and environmental sanitation programs."

What is crazy is that the incidence of norovirus is minuscule and that is what most everyone focuses on.

The CDC says: From 2008 to 2014, 74 million passengers sailed on cruise ships in the Vessel Sanitation Program’s jurisdiction. Only 129,678 passengers met the program’s case definition for acute gastrointestinal illness and only a small proportion of those cases (1 in 10) were part of a norovirus outbreak.

 

[insureman]

What is crazy is that the incidence of norovirus is minuscule and that is what most everyone focuses on.

The CDC says: From 2008 to 2014, 74 million passengers sailed on cruise ships in the Vessel Sanitation Program’s jurisdiction. Only 129,678 passengers met the program’s case definition for acute gastrointestinal illness and only a small proportion of those cases (1 in 10) were part of a norovirus outbreak.

You're right. I think it probably started when the media started broadcasting every norovirus or suspected norovirus incident so that's when the government got involved. My opinion.

 

[JM23457]

I think it probably started when the media started broadcasting every norovirus or suspected norovirus incident so that's when the government got involved.

That sounds so familiar...

 

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