THE Royal Caribbean cruise line has ended a ship's 10-day trip in the Caribbean early after hundreds of passengers and crew members were sickened with a gastrointestinal illness.
The Miami-based company made the announcement a few hours after officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention boarded the Explorer of the Seas during its Virgin Islands port call to evaluate the outbreak response.
Royal Caribbean said new reports of illness had decreased day-over-day, but "the disruptions caused by the early wave of illness means that we were unable to deliver the vacation our guests were expecting".
The decision to end the trip came after consultation between CDC officials and members of the company's medical team, the company said.
The CDC said early on Monday that 577 of the 3050 passengers aboard reported getting sick during the cruise that left New Jersey on Tuesday.
Forty-nine crew members also reported feeling ill, according to CDC spokeswoman Bernadette Burden.
The CDC team will remain on board until the vessel returns to the US later this week, Burden said.
Tests would have to confirm what caused the outbreak, but fast-spreading norovirus is often to blame for similar symptoms sweeping closed quarters like those on cruise ships.
Royal Caribbean said special cleaning products and disinfectants proven to kill norovirus were being used to clean ship before it returned to the US.
It said a full sanitisation program would be carried out after the 15-deck Explorer of the Seas reached its home port Wednesday.
On Friday, an Explorer of the Seas passenger named Arnee Dodd tweeted that she had fallen ill aboard the ship and was quarantined with the other sick people. The Connecticut woman wrote that ship employees "put a lock down on food & are constantly cleaning everything".
Royal Caribbean said it was "taking several steps" to compensate passengers for the shortened trip.
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