Cumulative Data (8-Years)
Healthiest Annual Cruise Rankings
Sickest Annual Cruise Rankings
Annual Voyage Logs
Healthiest Voyage Rankings
Sickest Voyage Rankings
Voyage Green Alerts
Voyage Yellow Alerts
Voyage Orange Alerts
Voyage Red Alerts
Voyage Black Alerts (Outbreaks)
Voyage Outbreaks by Ship Only
Voyage Archives
Voyage Trend Charts
Annual Green Reports
Annual Yellow Reports
Annual Orange Reports
Annual Red Reports
Cruise Ship Quick*Lists
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Sickest Cruise Rankings
Disease Strategies is NOT so proud to announce the sickest, or least GI Illness-free cruise ships, cruise lines and cruise ports. Lowest or Sickest Cruise Rankings are provided in three categories: the cruise ship, the cruise line, and the cruise port. Rankings are limited to one calendar year in duration and be sure to check multiple years as the rankings change on an annual basis.
Cruising enthusiasts and cruise ship medical officers should consider these lists of cruise ships, cruise lines and cruise ports as the "worst of the worst" in the cruise industry. Even though many variables affect overall health of a cruise ship, including "luck of the draw", one must consider cruise ship and cruise port risk management as a two of the most important factors.
Disease Strategies recommends avoiding cruise ships on the Sickest Cruise Rankings list as these ships have the worst GI Illness ratings for the year or years on the list. Further, GI Illness outbreaks may indicate weak health related risk management processes that are defined and enforced by the cruise line that operates the ship. Finally, one should look at the cruise ports they visit as some cruise ports have a much greater GI Illness health risk than others. For more detailed information, please cross-reference your searches with the Cruising Healthy Annual Reports.
Sickest Cruise Rankings
Sickest Cruise Ships
Sickest Cruise Lines
Sickest Cruise Ports
Target Audiences
Cruise ship medical and executive officers are the target audiences for this data. The strategy is to empower ship officers in controlling the spread of communicable GI Illness among crew and passengers in a proactive manner based on voyage history and retrospective disease analysis.
The statistics on this site are easily comprehended by a potential cruise passenger; but cruise ship medical officers and cruise line executives are urged to sudy the incidence of GI Illness on their cruise ships, cruise lines, and cruise ports and those of their competitors. The Vessel Sanitation Program has never released the bulk of the GI Illness information to the general public, but interpretation of the GI Illness data presented on this website can be extremely useful in increasing the effectiveness of the cruise industry risk management programs. Conversly, the public awareness of this data can divert potential passengers from cruise ships and cruise lines with a poor GI Illness Index to cruise ships with a better GI Illness Index.
Data Sources: CDC VSP GI Illness Data and Subsequent Data Analysis
The Centers for Disease Control, Vessel Sanitation Program, provides Disease Strategies with a periodic dump of the VSP Master Database containing the GI Illness reports from cruise ship medical officers since 2001. All GI Illness data on this website is self-reported to the Vessel Sanitation Program by the cruise ship medical staff or ship executive officers.
Disease Strategies acquires the data from the CDC VSP, cleans the dataset of obvious errors, corrects for data entry errors, and adds records that have been dropped over the last four years. The raw GI Illness data is placed into the Disease Strategies data warehouse, analyzed, interpreted, and presented on this website.
It should be noted that, Vessel Sanitation Program salaries and travel expenses are funded through cruise ship inspection and training fees through the Cruise Ship Industry, and not from the federal budget or the taxpayer. Surprisingly enough, because the CDC is not a regulatory agency, the Vessel Sanitation Program has no regulatory power so government employees of the CDC VSP can only make GI Illness risk management recommendations to the cruise lines and the final public health decisions are in the hands of the invidivual cruise lines.
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