A recent outbreak of deadly hantavirus, a disease usually spread via rats, has been tied to cruise ship travel by the World Health Organisation.
And France confined over 1,700 people to a cruise ship after a suspected norovirus outbreak occurred on board, though passengers have since been released.
The thought of being stuck on a ship filled with a contaqgious virus is a pretty scary one. But how likely is it?
We asked Professor of Medicine in Norwich Medical School, Prof Paul Hunter (whose research interests include the spread of infectious disease), whether and why cruise ships m...
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