Cruise ships can be floating petri dishes of gastro bugs. 6 ways to stay healthy at sea this summer
- Written by Leesa Bruggink, Senior Scientist, Enteric Viruses Laboratory, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
Norovirus is the most common cause of gastro outbreaks on cruise ships.From shutterstock.com
A cruise can be the perfect summer holiday. But cruise ships, with hundreds, even thousands of people in close quarters, can also be a hotbed of germs.
In particular, cruises are somewhat notorious for outbreaks of gastro. One study, which looked at close to...