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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
Cruise ships can be floating petri dishes of gastro bugs. 6 ways to stay healthy at sea this summerNorovirus 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...

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