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

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 ...

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 Sanitation Program this week. Unfortunately, the cuts happened just as another ...

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.

Passengers and crew who contracted norovirus on the Queen Mary 2 mainly experienced diarrhea and vomiting, two of the most ...

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

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