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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is abandoning ship on monitoring cruise-related outbreaks of norovirus and ...

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

Despite recent layoffs at Health and Human Services, the CDC confirmed its Vessel Sanitation Program will continue.

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

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

Only a dozen Public Health Service officers have reportedly been left to handle current and future ship inspections, which ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laid off all its cruise ship inspectors, which would severely damage efforts ...

The most recent inspection was Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria on March 14, 2025, receiving a score of 96 out of 100. On March ...

The infectious gastrointestinal virus has swept through the Queen Mary 2, flagship vessel of Cunard Line, affecting more than ...

A major overhaul of the agency that began with thousands of layoffs on April 1 axed a critical environmental health division ...

The federal government’s ability to investigate disease outbreaks on cruise ships was dealt a severe blow recently. CBS News ...