400 Get Sick on Cruise Ship from South Carolina
HK wrote:
Hundreds end up sick on another cruise from SC
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- (AP) - Hundreds of passengers have again taken ill
with an intestinal bug on a Celebrity Cruise ship's third straight trip
from South Carolina.
Cruise line spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez said Monday 350 of the 1,829
passengers on the Celebrity Mercury got ill during the latest cruise
which left Charleston on March 8.
The line announced it was canceling a Monday port call in the British
Virgin Islands and returning to Charleston on Thursday, a day earlier
than scheduled.
The ship has been undergoing cleaning at sea and will be cleaned again
in Charleston.
Officials say more than 400 passengers and crew got sick during a cruise
that returned to Charleston on Feb. 26. On the next sailing from
Charleston, 182 people took ill.
I wonder if they were served Maryland soft shell crab.
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