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Originally Posted by Snuggle  You know, that's awesome advice. You just told me something I wouldn't have known, and could save me a lot of trouble. This is precisely why I posted on here, to find out info like this. You're the greatest! I never even heard of Norwalk Virus before..but I did some research and found some alarming information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus
If you scroll down to where it shows the virus outbreaks on cruise ships, thats quite a lot of outbreaks! |
You're welcome. Sadly we learned the above mentioned the hard way.
My in-laws took their first-ever cruise about 3 years ago. While on the trip, they ate something bad on one of their off-boat excursions. Not unusual, considering they were in a strange place eating strange foods. Something didn't agree with them and it made them sick to their stomachs. My MIL went to the ship's infirmary, since the ship's store conveniently didn't carry immodium (they WANT you to go to the ship's doc instead of buying OTC stomach relief). She naively answered all the doc's questions TOO honestly, (example: responsing with a yes when asked if she had chills. She's
always cold, of course she had "chills"!) The barely-English-speaking "doctor" was just running down a checklist of questions, and based solely on her answers, they were quarantened and given the choice to either stay quaranteened the entire rest of the cruise or get off at the next stop and go home. Within about 10 hours, they were both totally fine again. But, the quarantine was not allowed to be lifted. Period.
It was a horrible experience (in many ways), that has soured us to the entire cruise experience. The way they were treated by the cruise line (Celebrity Cruises?) was just awful.