The news comes as the U.S. battles a new strain of norovirus and cruise lines face an upsurge in onboard outbreaks. The VSP’s ...

The cuts are problematic for Florida, where passengers disembark from cruise ships with gastrointestinal viruses and often ...

In a move that feels like cutting your brakes on the way down a hill, the CDC laid off its entire team from the Vessel ...

Staffers working as part of a CDC program that monitors and investigates cruise ship outbreaks were recently laid off, ...

The Trump administration’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has laid off all full-time staff from the CDC’s Vessel ...

The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars ...

The program responsible for overseeing the cleanliness of cruise ships has been gutted, but the CDC believes layoffs will not ...

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said cruise ship inspections will continue amid government layoffs, an official said the task will be more challenging for remaining workers. The ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fired all sanitation inspectors for cruise ships despite their payroll not ...

Since the start of 2025, there have been 12 outbreaks on cruise ships, mostly caused by norovirus, according to CDC records.

The CDC cut employees from its Vessel Sanitation Program this week, even as a cruise ship arrived days ago with another ...

The CDC documented a dozen outbreaks on ships in just the first four months of 2025, mostly from norovirus. Ten of those ships departed from, or docked in, Florida or both. The outbreaks involved ...