{"id":34834,"date":"2024-02-08T17:37:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T03:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/?p=34834"},"modified":"2024-02-08T17:37:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T03:37:34","slug":"doh-closely-monitoring-reported-illnesses-aboard-queen-victoria-cruise-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/doh-closely-monitoring-reported-illnesses-aboard-queen-victoria-cruise-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"DOH Closely Monitoring Reported Illnesses Aboard Queen Victoria Cruise Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Queen-V-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Queen-V.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Queen-V.jpg?resize=585%2C439&amp;ssl=1 585w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Queen-V.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Hawai\u2018i Department of Health (DOH) is closely monitoring a reported outbreak of gastrointestinal illness aboard the Queen Victoria cruise ship, which is set to dock in Honolulu on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The illnesses appear to have occurred during the ship\u2019s voyage between Florida and San Francisco from Jan. 22-Feb. 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 140 of the ship&#8217;s 1,800 passengers and 970 crew reported symptoms of gastrointestinal illness, including diarrhea and vomiting, when it was docked at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Jan. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Thursday, Feb. 8, 129 passengers and 25 crew members were reported ill, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitigation measures such as increased disinfecting of surfaces and isolation of ill passengers and crew have been implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the illness has not been confirmed at this time, but the symptoms and spread appear to be similar to norovirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DOH continues to be in active communication with the CDC and will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hawai\u2018i Department of Health (DOH) is closely monitoring a reported outbreak of gastrointestinal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[616],"tags":[538],"class_list":["post-34834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cruise-ship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Queen-V.jpg?fit=768%2C576&ssl=1","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34836,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34834\/revisions\/34836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigislandthieves.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}