Hundreds of passengers and crew members aboard the Ruby Princess cruise ship fell ill due to a yet-to-be-determined cause, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said.
Illness reportedly affected 284 of 2,881 passengers on the cruise, which took place between February 26 and March 5. The cruise ship docked at Galveston, Texas, where epidemiologists and environmental health officers from CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program responded to the ship and collected stool samples from sickened passengers.
