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Cruise Ship Comes into Port Day Early Due to Norwalk Virus

Aired September 02, 2003 - 05:57   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: All right, let's take you live back now to the Port of New York -- Chad, if you could join me here, this is this cruise ship coming into port early, a day early, in fact, because, oh, about 300 people on board were infected the with Norwalk virus.
CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right.

COSTELLO: And apparently...

MYERS: Almost 20 percent, Carol. Twenty percent of the passengers. Now that's, you know, when you get three or four people sick, that's fine. But when you get that many people, one in five, sick, that's quite the outbreak.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes. This is called the Regal Princess and it left Copenhagen on August 18. In all, it's carrying 2,000 people. And apparently those 300 people got sick and then suddenly most of them got well. So only a few are still sick, but they're bringing back the ship a day early anyway, just in case.

MYERS: Well, clearly this was a long voyage. I mean we're not talking like you're going from the Bahamas to Puerto Rico then around a couple of private islands. This was a long cruise from Copenhagen all the way across the Atlantic. So you just can't stop at some island and get rid of them, you know, get the people off there.

COSTELLO: Yes, no word from -- I think that Carnival Cruises owns this ship. Let me make sure. Carnival Corporation, right.

MYERS: Yes.

COSTELLO: They were not available for comment because, of course, it was Labor Day yesterday and, of course, they'll probably be speaking out later today. But it's a beautiful shot. It's just unfortunate that it has to be bad news bringing the ship back a day early.

MYERS: Well, you know, it really does. I mean I can imagine being on a ship that had an outbreak like that. It would just absolutely ruin your time. You don't want to touch anything, you don't want to eat anything, you know, you're looking at everything, should I eat that, should I pick up that fork? Well, you know, ah -- you know, so I mean considering how great a cruise can be, that really would ruin your entire time.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes. And I always wonder if you get your money back. I know Maria Hinojosa is standing by. She's going to bring us some live shots during AMERICAN MORNING, which, of course, happens an hour from now.

We're going to let you look at this shot as we head to a break.

And we'll be back soon with the second hour of DAYBREAK.

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Aired September 2, 2003 - 05:57   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: All right, let's take you live back now to the Port of New York -- Chad, if you could join me here, this is this cruise ship coming into port early, a day early, in fact, because, oh, about 300 people on board were infected the with Norwalk virus.
CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right.

COSTELLO: And apparently...

MYERS: Almost 20 percent, Carol. Twenty percent of the passengers. Now that's, you know, when you get three or four people sick, that's fine. But when you get that many people, one in five, sick, that's quite the outbreak.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes. This is called the Regal Princess and it left Copenhagen on August 18. In all, it's carrying 2,000 people. And apparently those 300 people got sick and then suddenly most of them got well. So only a few are still sick, but they're bringing back the ship a day early anyway, just in case.

MYERS: Well, clearly this was a long voyage. I mean we're not talking like you're going from the Bahamas to Puerto Rico then around a couple of private islands. This was a long cruise from Copenhagen all the way across the Atlantic. So you just can't stop at some island and get rid of them, you know, get the people off there.

COSTELLO: Yes, no word from -- I think that Carnival Cruises owns this ship. Let me make sure. Carnival Corporation, right.

MYERS: Yes.

COSTELLO: They were not available for comment because, of course, it was Labor Day yesterday and, of course, they'll probably be speaking out later today. But it's a beautiful shot. It's just unfortunate that it has to be bad news bringing the ship back a day early.

MYERS: Well, you know, it really does. I mean I can imagine being on a ship that had an outbreak like that. It would just absolutely ruin your time. You don't want to touch anything, you don't want to eat anything, you know, you're looking at everything, should I eat that, should I pick up that fork? Well, you know, ah -- you know, so I mean considering how great a cruise can be, that really would ruin your entire time.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes. And I always wonder if you get your money back. I know Maria Hinojosa is standing by. She's going to bring us some live shots during AMERICAN MORNING, which, of course, happens an hour from now.

We're going to let you look at this shot as we head to a break.

And we'll be back soon with the second hour of DAYBREAK.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com




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