Overview
- - The ship, which reported the outbreak to the CDC on Thursday, has 102 passengers and 13 crew with vomiting and diarrhea consistent with norovirus.
- - Princess Cruises says it stepped up cleaning, isolated sick guests and crew, and plans a full disinfection when the vessel reaches Port Canaveral on May 11.
- - CDC investigators from the Vessel Sanitation Program are on board conducting an environmental assessment and an outbreak investigation to curb transmission.
- - The case count sits just above the CDC’s roughly 3% threshold that triggers a public outbreak notice for cruise voyages.
- - This is the fourth gastrointestinal outbreak on U.S.-tracked cruises in 2026, with experts noting cruise clusters are a small share of overall norovirus cases but spread easily in close quarters.