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

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

“Critical programs in the CDC will continue under Secretary Kennedy’s vision to streamline HHS to better serve Americans. CDC ...

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

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 laid off all its cruise ship inspectors, which would severely damage efforts ...

The cruise ship Silja, on which the municipality of Rotterdam and the COA are housing almost 2,000 refugees, is a “pressure ...

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

The VSP is responsible for the twice-yearly inspections of cruise ships as well as tracking all shipboard illness outbreaks.

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

A cruise ship that recorded hundreds of cases of norovirus has returned to Southampton. More than 200 passengers on a four-week cruise around the Caribbean fell ill aboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2. Bouts ...