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.comA 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...





