Outbreaks and incidents of diseases on ships: the reason for clean ships
By ships systems we mean:
- people
- waste systems
- garbage and waste disposal systems
- food handling (including fish rooms)and food preparation reas
- ventilation systems
- water treatment
- and at the end – the bilges and oil water separators
All ships systems are inter-related and should be looked at as such when ship sanitation programmes are considered.
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One more thing - look at how infection can spread from one to many
Agent |
no. of outbreaks |
no. affected |
no. hospitalized |
deaths |
Norwalk type |
23 |
6709 |
0 |
0 |
Escherichia spp. |
7 |
1753 |
1 |
0 |
Salmonella |
1 |
83 |
83 |
1 |
Salmonella spp |
9 |
981 |
14 |
0 |
Shigella spp |
4 |
1294 |
34 |
1 |
Staphylococcus |
1 |
215 |
0 |
0 |
Clostridium perfringens |
1 |
18 |
0 |
0 |
Cyclospora spp |
1 |
220 |
0 |
0 |
Giardia lamblia |
1 |
200 |
0 |
0 |
Cryptosporidium spp. |
1 |
20 |
0 |
0 |
Trichinella spiralis |
1 |
13 |
0 |
0 |
Taken from WHO Sanitation on Ships report 2001, data from 1970-200
This is a total of 13521 people affected from 57 outbreaks. Gives you pause for thought. Especially when you consider that the level of travellers in 2011 is that much higher
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