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The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars ...
Despite recent layoffs at Health and Human Services, the CDC confirmed its Vessel Sanitation Program will continue.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fired all sanitation inspectors for cruise ships despite their payroll not ...
Since the start of 2025, there have been 12 outbreaks on cruise ships, mostly caused by norovirus, according to CDC records.
Only a dozen Public Health Service officers have reportedly been left to handle current and future ship inspections, which ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laid off all its cruise ship inspectors, which would severely damage efforts ...
The infectious gastrointestinal virus has swept through the Queen Mary 2, flagship vessel of Cunard Line, affecting more than ...
The most recent inspection was Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria on March 14, 2025, receiving a score of 96 out of 100. On March ...
All full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program were laid off this week, even as a cruise ship arrived in ...
A major overhaul of the agency that began with thousands of layoffs on April 1 axed a critical environmental health division ...
The Norwegian Bliss set sail today, marking the start of the cruise season in Seattle. Officials from the Port of Seattle ...