For Americans planning cruise ship vacations this spring or summer, there could be reason to worry about more than rough seas ...

A “newly dominant strain” of norovirus has increased outbreaks of the stomach bug onboard cruise ships, says a US public ...

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers do not protect against some pathogens, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said, urging ...

The agency also found a “possible overreliance on hand sanitizer on ships” during a preliminary review. Those are not as effective against norovirus as washing hands with soap and water ...

Hand sanitizer alone doesn’t work well against norovirus, the CDC notes. Cruise lines have extensive sanitation protocols in place that are monitored through the CDC’s vessel program ...