Cruising Healthy Voyage Alerts for GI Illness
Cruising Healthy Voyage Alerts relate to cruise ships, cruise lines, and cruise ports that experience some amount of GI Illness and self-report that illness to the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program in Atlanta, GA.
The Disease Strategies Alert system consists of four colors that correspond with 'increasing' levels of gastrointestinal illness. A Voyage Yellow Alert means passengers should use the first level of caution when touching any public surfaces, including common utensils in the ship cafeterias. A Voyage Orange Alert means that passengers should use some extra caution and avoid crowds, and a Voyage Red Alert means that cruise passengers should avoid crowds when dining, inaminate objects (fomites) including slot machines, while onboard and exiting the voyage.
Voyage Green Alerts for GI Illness – Tier I
Voyage Green Alerts provides GI Illness information on cruise ships, cruise lines and cruise ports. Voyage Green Alerts get the Cruising Healthy Green Star for reporting the lowest percentages of GI Illness in the Cruising Healthy Voyage Alert system. This list includes all voyages that have no physician confirmed diagnosis of GI Illness.
For cruise ship physicians and passengers alike, a Green Voyage Alert for GI Illness should be taken as a JOB WELL DONE by cruise line executives, ship officers and especially the staff of the cruise line, cruise ship and associated cruise port(s). One criteria for Green Alert inclusion is having a GI Illness incidence that does not exceed the Cruising Healthy Annual GI Illness Index by less than 9 times for voyages. The Cruising Healthy Annual GI Illness Index applies to all cruise ships that enter U.S. ports and participate in the CDC Vessel Sanitiation Program.
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