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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 ...

All full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vessel Sanitation Program were laid off this week ...