Norovirus is also hard to kill on surfaces, where it can live for days to weeks. If someone in your household vomits in the bathroom, you need to clean every contaminated surface with a disinfectant (typically bleach). The virus also can spread through contaminated food.

Norovirus has torn through the U.S. this winter, peaking early in some parts of the country but taking hold in South Florida over the last few weeks. Experts say every person who gets it passes it

Holland America has reported its fourth norovirus outbreak of 2025 on a cruise out of Port Everglades, with nearly 150 passengers and 10 crew members falling ill.

A cruise ship carrying 158 passengers and crew members with norovirus docked in Florida on Saturday. The Holland America Eurodam returned to Port Everglades after a 10-day trip around the Caribbean. CBS 42 Road to the Final Four: Morning Edition 3/3 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began monitoring a norovirus outbreak on the ship on Feb.

Norovirus spreads easily and often causes vomiting, diarrhea, nausea and stomach pain, although people usually recover in a few days. And the virus has many names — stomach flu, stomach bug and cruise ship virus, although you can also get sick on land.

Dozens of passengers aboard a cruise ship that left from Florida have been sickened with norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vessel Sanitation Program.Holland America Line's Eurodam left Port Everglades,

The latest report marks the eighth gastrointestinal illness outbreak on a cruise ship in just the first two months of the year, the healthy agency said.

People with flu-like symptoms are pouring into Miami-Dade and Broward urgent care and ERs as infections across the country reach levels not seen in a decade. And for the first time since the start of the pandemic in 2020,

Nearly 90 passengers and crew members aboard a cruise ship that left from Florida have fallen ill with norovirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control’s Vessel Sanitation Program.

Holland America Line’s Eurodam left Port Everglades, Florida, on Feb. 19 and is scheduled to last 10 days and make multiple stops throughout the Caribbean before returning to Florida on Saturday.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Dozens of passengers are sick on a Holland America cruise ship that set sail out of Fort Lauderdale. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 79 passengers and nine crew members aboard the Eurodam are sick with norovirus. The ship left Port Everglades on Feb. 19, according to CruiseMapper .

“The norovirus is highly, highly contagious,” said Jill Roberts, a University of South Florida public health professor. “If I pick up food and the food is contaminated and I get norovirus on ...