Cruise ships are perfect breeding ground for viruses, but we can’t get enough
Buffets and shared spaces help make cruise ships ideal places for viruses to flourish, disease experts say. Still, Americans are booking cruises in record numbers.
One might think the recent outbreaks of hantavirus aboard the Hondius and norovirus on the Ambition would rattle Colleen McDaniel’s enthusiasm for the mode of travel. Not so.
“I’m currently on a European river cruise, and no one is talking about illness,” the Colorado-based editor in chief of review site Cruise Critic wrote in an email.
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