Overview
- The Princess Cruises ship arrived at Port Canaveral after a two‑week Caribbean voyage, and port officials said disembarkation and operations ran as normal.
- Federal health officials confirmed norovirus after 102 passengers and 13 crew reported vomiting and diarrhea during the trip.
- The case crossed the CDC’s public‑notification threshold and is now listed on the agency’s Vessel Sanitation Program tracking system for cruise illnesses.
- Princess Cruises said it isolated sick people, increased cleaning, adjusted food service to cut shared touch points, and will carry out a full shipwide disinfection before the next sailing.
- This is the fourth cruise‑related gastrointestinal outbreak reported this year, a reminder that the CDC routinely tracks such events and that norovirus outbreaks remain common on ships.