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I’ve said it before. As someone whose working life was bound up with ships, I get a little fed-up when the media reports cases of Novovirus occurring on board cruise ships, as they did yesterday when a few passengers suffered from it during a cruise on Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines ‘Boudicca’.
Having just recently disembarked from Olsen’s ‘Balmoral’ I can confirm that the hygiene precautions and standards on board, like all the other Olsen ships, were exemplary and, as someone who once worked for the company, I know this to be the case.
The Novovirus, known also as the winter vomiting virus, is the second most common virus next to the Common Cold and occurs regularly every winter throughout northern latitudes. It is an unpleasant illness though, fortunately, short-lived.
The problem is that ships, and other forms of closed communities such as hospitals, schools, hotels and others, do not themselves usually harbour viruses. People do. So, inevitably, when a virus of any sort is taken into such communities by folk, they are bound to spread.
What doesn’t get the same amount of publicity is when schools, hotels and even hospital wards are struck by the Novovirus. Such as the five wards in Bedford Hospital which were closed just this week to new admissions and patient transfers because of it. Or the two wards closed yesterday at Broomfield Hospital for the same reason.
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I’ve said it before. As someone whose working life was bound up with ships, I get a little fed-up when the media reports cases of Novovirus occurring on board cruise ships, as they did yesterday when a few passengers suffered from it during a cruise on Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines ‘Boudicca’.
Having just recently disembarked from Olsen’s ‘Balmoral’ I can confirm that the hygiene precautions and standards on board, like all the other Olsen ships, were exemplary and, as someone who once worked for the company, I know this to be the case.
The Novovirus, known also as the winter vomiting virus, is the second most common virus next to the Common Cold and occurs regularly every winter throughout northern latitudes. It is an unpleasant illness though, fortunately, short-lived.
The problem is that ships, and other forms of closed communities such as hospitals, schools, hotels and others, do not themselves usually harbour viruses. People do. So, inevitably, when a virus of any sort is taken into such communities by folk, they are bound to spread.
What doesn’t get the same amount of publicity is when schools, hotels and even hospital wards are struck by the Novovirus. Such as the five wards in Bedford Hospital which were closed just this week to new admissions and patient transfers because of it. Or the two wards closed yesterday at Broomfield Hospital for the same reason.
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