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115 People Get Sick Aboard Cruise Ship in Norovirus Outbreak: CDC
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
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Just as the hantavirus situation was resolved aboard the MV Hondius, another cruise liner was hit with a massive viral outbreak. The silver lining here, though, is that the virus in question isn’t as bad as hantavirus, which has a mortality rate of 30–50 percent.
The new ship, according to the CDC, had an outbreak of the norovirus, with 115 people falling ill already.
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