More than 100 Viking cruise passengers were hit with bouts of vomiting and diarrhea amid a nasty norovirus outbreak onboard
The Viking Neptune transformed into a cross-continental petri dish as more than 100 passengers onboard the cruise ship fell ill with the highly contagious norovirus this month.
In a Tuesday update, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 110 cruisers — more than 13% of the ship’s 838 passengers — were affected by the gastrointestinal virus during the vessel’s two-week trip from Iceland to New York, which ended Tuesday.
The CDC has already logged 13 outbreaks of norovirus on cruise ships in the first half of this year — the most since 2016, which saw the same number of outbreaks across 12 months.
