Posted on 02/23/2010 8:19:55 AM PST by Kartographer
About 350 people were responding well to medicine after getting sick on a cruise to the Caribbean that departed from South Carolina, the cruise line said Tuesday.
Celebrity Cruise spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez said 326 of the more than 1,800 passengers on the Celebrity Mercury began complaining Sunday of upset stomachs, vomiting and diarrhea. Martinez says 27 of the nearly 850 crew members also reported symptoms.
The ship left Charleston on Feb. 15, the first departure in a newly-expanded year-round schedule of cruises from South Carolina as the industry expands in the state.
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Earlier this morning, I read in my local paper, The Key West Citizen, that the Coast Guard has been airlifting passengers with “abdominal pains” off Carnival Cruise ships:
Coast Guard crews also were busy airlifting two patients from two separate cruise ships Saturday. A 59-year-old woman complaining of abdominal pain was airlifted around 1:30 p.m. from a Carnival cruise ship near Key West. About 45 minutes later, a 67-year-old woman aboard a different Carnival ship was airlifted after she, too, complained of abdominal pains, reports say.
Both women were reportedly in stable condition at Lower Keys Medical Center.
Grits make sick only those not worthy of actually eating them.
Shrimp and grits, my friend, shrimp and grits. A true Charleston delicacy!
I eat way too much.
Let me be clear... WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE EATING (sitting down to eat, not just before you get your food) ... Phew there fixed it. : )
I used to love flying. I now hate it. I had a 6 hour delay on my trip to Dallas this summer. I was taking my kids to see my family. We got in at 3 in the morning. I was really worried because my daughter has epilepsy and sleep deprivation can trigger seizures.
We were already booked for our cruise to Alaska, but we hadn’t figured out how we were getting to Seattle from San Jose. After the trip to Dallas, I told my husband we were driving to Seattle. It took a long time, but it was much more relaxing. The kids don’t mind driving now that they are older. We just have lots of movies to watch in the car. We also got to take lots more things on the ship.
“Illegal” is being used here to mis-describe foreigners, and imply that foreigners do not know how to wash their hands.
Never had them together. Sounds absolutely delicious; I’d eat it up. Whose cooking!?
When I was at boot camp in Orlando hundreds of recruits got violently ill from chicken salad. Mayonaisse + heat = sick.
I was fine - nver eat chicken salad, macaroni salad, anything like that. Hundreds of recruits were doubled up in agony!
This incident made it into legend...
‘They say that in the Navy, the food is mighty fine
They gave us chicken salad, it killed a friend of mine’
That was my thought too.
Fresh shrimp and stone ground grits. Add any spices you like, tastes great.
“The food staff are illegals and they have no clue what hand washing is. They are like an ocean going sweat shop.”
Unbelievable the things you are saying!!
Most cruise ships are foreign flagged vessels, not staffed by illegal aliens, since they are ships company. That is like saying that a pilot from Japan Air Lines, when he lands in the U.S. is an illegal alien. Please quit shooting from the hip...
....Bob
Afterwards, if you’re really quiet you can actually hear your arteries clogging.
From what I read about these outbreaks on cruise ships, it is generally determined that the common restrooms and their lack of thorough cleaning by the staff, is the main reason for these outbreaks occurring.
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