Medical
Research and Health Care on Cruise Ships
This
page provides a bibliography (chronological within topics) to published
material relating to health and medical care on cruise ships.
Infectious Disease (General):
Uveki TM. "Large summertime influenza A outbreak among tourists
in Alaska and the Yukon Territory," Clinical
Infectious Disease, May 1 2003, 36(9):1095-1102.
Cramer EH, Gu DX, Durbin RE. "Diarrheal disease on cruise ships:
1990-2000: the impact of environmental health programs," American Journal of Preventative Medicine,
Apr 2003, 24(3):227-33.
Bortherton JM et al. "A large outbreak of influenza A and B on
cruise ship causing widespreqad morbidity," Epidemiology and Infection, Apr
2003, 130(2):263-71.
Ruben, FL, Ehreth J. "Maritime health: a case for preventing
influenza on the high seas," International
Maritime Health, 2002, 53(1-4):36-42.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Influenza B virus outbreak
in a cruise ship--Northern Europe, 2000," Journal of the American
Medical Association,
Apr 11 2001, 285(14) p1833-4.
"Influenza B virus outbreak on a cruise ship--Northern Europe, 2000," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
Mar 2 2001,
50(8) p137-40. Also JAMA, Apr 11 2001, 285(14):1833-4.
Pugh RE, Selvey L, Crome M, et al. "Onshore catering
increases the risk of diarrhoeal illness amongst cruise ship
passengers,"
Communicable Diseases Intellence,
Jan 2001, 25(1):15-7.
Miller JM, Tam TW, Maloney S, et al. "Cruise ships: high-risk
passengers and the global spread of new influenza viruses,"
Clinical Infectious Disease,
Aug 2000, 31(2):433-8.
Ferson M, Paraskevopoulos P, Hatzi S, et al. "Presumptive summer
influenza A: an outbreak on a trans-Tasman cruise,"
Communicable Diseases Intelligence,
Mar 16 2000, 24(3):45-7.
Minooee A & Rickman LS. "Infectious diseases on cruise
ships," Clinical Infectious Disease,
Oct 1999, 29(4):737-43.
"Influenza in travellers to Alaska, the Yukon Territory, and on west
coast cruise ships, summer of 1999," Canada
Communicable
Disease Report , Aug 15 1999, 25(16):137-9; discussion 139-41.
"Influenza on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean." Communicable
Disease Report Weekly, Jun 11 1999, 9(24):209, 212.
Mintz ED, Weber JT, Guris D, et al. "An outbreak of Brainerd
diarrhea among travelers to the Galapagos Islands," Journal of
Infectious Disease, Apr 1998,
177(4):1041-5.
Miller J, Tam T, Afif C, et al. "Influenza A outbreak on a cruise
ship," Canada Communicable Disease
Report, Jan 15 1998, 24(2):9-11.
Koo D, Maloney K, Tauxe R. "Epidemiology of diarrheal disease
outbreaks on cruise ships, 1986 through 1993," Journal of the
American Medical Assocation, Feb 21 1996, 275(7):545-7.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Outbreak of pneumonia
associated with a cruise ship, 1994," Journal
of the Americam
Medical Association , Aug 10 1994, 272(6):425.
"Outbreak of pneumonia associated with a cruise ship, 1994,"
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Jul 22 1994, 43(28):521.
Addiss DG, Yashuk JC, Clapp DE, et al. "Outbreaks of
diarrhoeal illness on passenger cruise ships, 1975-85," Epidemiology
and Infection, Aug 1989, 103(1):63-72.
"Leads from the MMWR. Acute respiratory illness among cruise-ship
passengers--Asia," Journal of the
American Medical Association, Mar 4 1988, 259(9):1305-6.
"Acute respiratory illness among cruise-ship passengers--Asia,"
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Feb
5 1988, 37(4):63-6.
Waterman SH, Demarcus TA, Wells JG, et al. "Staphylococcal food
poisoning on a cruise ship," Epidemiology
and Infection, Oct 1987, 99(2):349-53.
O'Mahony M, Noah ND, Evans B, et al. "An outbreak of
gastroenteritis on a passenger cruise ship," Journal of Hygiene, Oct 1986,
97(2):229-36.
"Leads from the MMWR. Gastroenteritis on two Caribbean cruise ships,"
Journal of the
American Medical Association, Jul 25 1986,
256(4):447-8.
"Gastroenteritis outbreaks on two Caribbean cruise ships,"
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
Jun 13 1986, 35(23):383-4.
Berkelman RL, Cohen ML, Yashuk J, et al. "Traveler's
diarrhea at sea: two multi-pathogen outbreaks caused by food eaten
on shore visits," American Journal
of Public Health, Jul 1983,
73(7):770-2.
"Leads from the MMWR. Staphylococcal food poisoning on a cruise
ship,"
Journal of the American Medical
Association, Jul 1 1983,
250(1):26.
"Staphylococcal food poisoning on a cruise ship," Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report, Jun 10 1983, 32(22):294-5.
Dannenberg AL, Yashuk JC, Feldman RA. "Gastrointestinal illness on
passenger cruise ships, 1975-1978," American
Journal of Public
Health , 1982, 72:484-8.
Werner SB, Hudgins MP, Morrison FR, et al. "Gastroenteritis on a
cruise ship--a recurring problem," Public
Health Report,
Sep-Oct 1976, 91(5):433-6.
Merson MH, Hughes JM, Wood BT, et al. "Gastrointestinal illness
on passenger cruise ships," Journal
of the American Medical
Association, Feb 17 1975, 231(7):723-7.
Escherichia coli (E. coli):
Daniels NA, Neimann J, Karpati A, et al. "Traveler's diarrhea at
sea: three outbreaks of waterborne enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli on
cruise ships," Journal of Infectious
Disease, Apr 2000, 181(4):1491-5.
Snyder JD, Wells JG, Yashuk J, et al. "Outbreak of invasive
Escherichia coli gastroenteritis on a cruise ship," American
Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Mar 1984, 33(2):281-4.
Lumish RM et al. "Heat-labile enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
induced diarrhea aboard a Miami-based cruise ship," American Journal of Epidemiology,
Apr 1980, 111(4):432-6.
Hobbs BC, Rowe B, Kendall M, et
al. "Escherichia coli O
27 in adult diarrhoea," Journal of
Hygiene, Dec 1976, 77(3):393-400.
Legionellosis:
Kobayashi, A et al. "Severe Legionalla pneumophila pneumonia
associated with the public bath on a cruise ship in Japan," Journal of Anesthesiology, 2004,
18(2):129-31.
Regan, CM et al. "Outbreak of Legionnaires' disease on a cruise
ship: lessons for international surveillance and control, " Communicable Disease and Public Health,
Jun 2003, 6(2):152-6.
Castellani Pastoris M, Lo Monaco R, Goldoni P, et al.
"Legionnaires' disease on a cruise ship linked to the water
supply system: clinical and public health implications," Clinical
Infectious Disease,
Jan 1999, 28(1):33-8.
Rowbotham TJ. "Legionellosis associated with ships:
1977 to 1997," Communicable Disease
and Public Health, Sep
1998, 1(3):146-51.
"Legionella on board a cruise ship," Communicable
Disease Report
Weekly , Jul 3 1998, 8(27):237.
Jernigan DB, Hofmann J, Cetron MS, et al. "Outbreak
of Legionnaires' disease among cruise ship passengers exposed to a
contaminated whirlpool spa," Lancet,
Feb 24 1996, 347(9000):494-9.
"Congressional testimony of Dr. Richard Jackson on disease outbreaks on
cruise ships," House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries,
Subcommittee
on Merchant Marine and Coast Guard and Navigation, September 28, 1994.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Update: outbreak of
Legionnaires' Disease associated with a cruise ship, 1994,"
Journal of the American Medical
Association, Sep 28 1994,
272(12):915.
"DBMD Investigates Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak on Cruise Ship,"
CDC/NCID Focus, September
1994, 4(9):1, 10.
"Update: outbreak of Legionnaires' disease associated with a cruise
ship, 1994," Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report , Aug
12 1994, 43(31):574-5.
Berntsson E, Hogevik H, Lidin-Janson G, et al. "Infections among
cruise passengers (a Legionella-like organism?)," Infection,
Mar-Apr 1986, 14(2):93
Norwalk-like and Gastrointestinal
Viruses:
Isakbaeva, ET et al. "Norovirus transmission on cruise ship," Emerging Infectious Disease, Jan
2005, 11(1): 154-58.
Farkas, T et al. Genetic diversity among sapoviruses," Archives of Virology, Jul 2004,
149(7):1309-23.
Dahl, E "Dealing with gastrointestinal illness on a cruise ship,"
International Maritime Health,
2004, 55(1-4) 19-29.
Gallimore, CI, Richards AF, Gray JJ. "Molecular diversity of
noroviruses associated with outbreaks on cruise ships: comparison with
strains circulating within the UK," Communicable
Disease and Public Health, Dec 2003, 6(4):285-93.
Flemmer, M, Oldfield EC. "The agony and the ecstasy," American Journal of Gastroenterology,
Sep 2003, 98(9):2098-9.
McEvoy M, Blake W, Brown D, et al.
"An outbreak of viral
gastroenteritis on a cruise ship," Communicable Disease Report
Review, Dec 6 1996, 6(13):R188-92.
Herwaldt BL, Lew JF, Moe CL, et al. "Characterization of a
variant strain of Norwalk virus from a food-borne outbreak of
gastroenteritis on a cruise ship in Hawaii," Journal of Clinical
Microbiology,
Apr 1994, 32(4):861-6.
Khan AS, Moe CL, Glass RI, et al. "Norwalk virus-associated
gastroenteritis traced to ice consumption aboard a cruise ship in
Hawaii: comparison and application of molecular method-based assays," Journal
of Clinical Microbiology, Feb 1994, 32(2):318-22.
Ho MS, Glass RI, Monroe SS, et al. "Viral gastroenteritis aboard
a cruise ship," Lancet, Oct
21 1989, 2(8669):961-5.
Gunn RA, Terranova WA, Greenberg HB, Yashuk J, Gary GW, Wells JG,
Taylor PR, Feldman RA. Norwalk virus gastroenteritis aboard a cruise
ship: an outbreak
of five consecutive cruises," American
Journal of Epidemiology,
1980;1122:820-7.
Shigellosis:
Gikas A, Pediaditis J, Giti Z, et al. "Shigellosis on an Italian
cruise ship," Lancet, Dec 7
1996, 348(9041):1593-4.
Crockett, CS et al. "Prevalence of shigellosis in the US:
consistency with dose response information, " International Journal of Food Microbiology,
Jun 1996, 30(1-2):87-99.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Outbreak of Shigella
flexneri 2a infections on a cruise ship,"
Journal of the American Medical
Association, Nov 9 1994,
272(18):1404.
"Outbreak of Shigella flexneri 2a infections on a cruise ship,"
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Sep 9 1994, 43(35):657.
Lew JF, Swerdlow DL, Dance ME, et al. "An outbreak of shigellosis
aboard a cruise ship caused by a multiple-antibiotic-resistant strain
of Shigella flexneri," American
Journal of Epidemiology, Aug
15 1991, 134(4):413-20.
Merson MH, Tenney JH, Meyers JD, et al. "Shigellosis at sea: an
outbreak aboard a passenger cruise ship," American Journal of
Epidemiology, Feb 1975, 101(2):165-75.
Heath Care and Health Care
Issues(General):
Ferson,
MJ and Ressler, KA. "Bound for Sydney town: health surveillance
on international cruise
vessels visiting the Port of Sydney," Medical
Journal of Australia, Apr 18 2005, 18:182(8):391-4.
Diskin, AL. "Cruise ship medicine -- 2004," Annals of Emergency Medicine, Apr
2005, 45(4):460-461.
Jorm, LR et al. "Watching the Games: public health surveillance
for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health, Feb 2003, 57(2):102-8.
Tan SY. "Reflections on the medical profession during an Alaskan
cruise," Singapore Medical Journal,
Feb 2002, 43(2):57-9.
Prina LD, Orzai UN, Weber RE. "Evaluation of emergency air
evacuation of critically ill patients from cruise ships,"
Journal of Travel Medicine,
Nov-Dec 2001, 8(6):285-92.
Dahl E. "Cruise medicine: call for an international standard,"
International Maritime Health, 2001, 52(1-4):24-6.
Dahl E. "Passenger mortalities aboard cruise ships,"
International
Maritime Health, 2001, 52(1-4) p19-23.
"Cruise safety. Keep health needs in mind," Mayo Clinic
Health Letter, Jan 2000, 18(1):7.
Dahl E. "Anatomy of a world cruise," Journal of Travel
Medicine, Sep 1999, 6(3):168-71.
Peake DE, Gray CL, Ludwig MR, et al. "Descriptive epidemiology of
injury and illness among cruise ship passengers,"
Annals of Emergency Medicine,
Jan 1999, 33(1):67-72.
Balaban D. "Seasick? Help is on the way. A new telemedicine
system uses a satellite to link a cruise ship's physicians with
specialists in California," Health
Data Management, Oct 1998,
6(10):94, 96, 98.
"Health care guidelines for cruise ship medical facilities. American
College of Emergency Physicians." Annals of Emergency Medicine, Apr
1998, 31(4):535.
Feuer BS. "Cruise ship medical facilities: caveat emptor,"
Journal of the Florida Medical Association, Oct 1997,
84(7):461-2.
Costello J. "Interview with a cruise ship nurse. Interview by
Diane Wrobleski," Journal of
Emergency Nursing, Dec
1996,
22(6):546-8.
Gallagher JM, Hull AH. "Cruise ship accommodations for passengers
with physical limitations due to disability or age,"
American Journal of Occupational
Therapy, Sep 1996, 50(8):685-7.
Glover SM. "Cruise ship nursing," Nursing
Spectator, Jul 15
1996, 6(15):16.
"Guidelines of care for cruise ship medical facilities. American
College of Emergency Physicians," Annals
of Emergency Medicine, Jun 1996, 27(6):846.
Draper WC. "Cruise ship medicine," Annals of Emergency
Medicine, Dec 1995, 26(6):761-2.
Di Giovanna T, Rosen T, Forsett R, et al. "Shipboard
medicine: a new niche for emergency medicine," Annals of Emergency
Medicine, Dec 1992, 21(12):1476-9.
Fitzgerald RH. "Medical facilities and needs aboard a cruise
ship: points to ponder before an ocean cruise," Southern Medical
Journal, Nov 1986, 79(11):1413-5.
Wlazelek A. "Entrepreunerial R.N. innovates first-ever cruise for
lung patients," Revolution,
Summer 1996, 6(2):56-8.
Shapiro WB, Porush JG. "Shipboard dialysis," Journal of
Dialysis, 1977, 1(8):825-9.
Rubella:
Hoey J. "Rubella outbreaks on cruise ships," Canadian
Medical Association Journal, Feb 24 1998, 158(4):516-7.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Rubella
among crew members of commercial cruise ships--Florida, 1997,"
Journal of the American Medical
Association, Feb 4 1998, 279(5):348, 350.
Rubella among crew members of commercial cruise ships--Florida,
1997. Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report, Jan 9 1998,
46(52-53):1247-50.
Seasickness:
Gahlinger PM. "Cabin location and the likelihood of
motion sickness in cruise ship passengers," Journal of Travel
Medicine, May-Jun 2000, 7(3):120-4.
Vessel Inspections:
Banwell K, Butler T, Ferson M, et al. "Introducing a New South
Wales Vessel Inspection Program for cruise ships," New South Wales
Public Health Bulletin, Aug 2000, 11(8):148-150.
Waples P, Thackway S, Banwell K, et al. "Health surveillance on
cruise ships during the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games,"
New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, Aug 2000, 11(8):150-151.
Craft, C. "Vessel Sanitation Program seeks to prevent outbreaks
of disease aboard cruise ships in the United States," Dateline: CDC,
Sept/Oct
1994, 27(9):3.
Craft, C. "CDC investigates outbreaks of disease aboard cruise
ships," Dateline: CDC, Sept/Oct 1994, 27(9):5-7.
"Program Summary -- 1992. Vessel Sanitation Program," 1992
Program Summary, Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control, 1993,
77-9.
"Vessel Sanitation Scores," Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report, Feb 26, 1988, 37(7):114-7.
Korcok M. "Sick at sea: outbreaks prompt reinstatement of cruise
ship inspections," Canadian Medical
Association Journal, Jun
15 1987, 136(12):1298-300.
Marcus LC. "The inspection of international cruise ships,"
Journal of the American Medical Association, Oct 10 1986,
256(14):1895.
Mental Health
Issues:
Joseph S, Yule W, & Williams R. "Emotional
processing in survivors of the Jupiter cruise ship disaster,"
Behavioural Research and Therapy, Feb 1995,
33(2):187-92.
Joseph S, Andrews B, Williams R, et al. "Crisis
support and psychiatric symptomatology in adult survivors of the
Jupiter cruise ship disaster," British Journal of
Clinical Psychology, Feb 1992, 31( Pt 1):63-73.
Yule W. "Post-traumatic stress disorder in child
survivors of shipping disasters: the sinking of the 'Jupiter',"
Psychother Psychosom (Switzerland), 1992,
57(4):200-5.
Yule W, Udwin O, Murdoch K. "The 'Jupiter'
sinking: effects on children's fears, depression and anxiety,"
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , Nov
1990, 31(7):1051-61.
Miscellaneous:
Tekin, A et al. "A burn mass
casualty even due to boiler room explosion on a cruise ship:
preparedness and outcomes," American
Surgeon, Mar 2005, 71(3):210-15.
Lindquist,
LA, Golub, RM. "Cruise ship care: a proposed alternative to
assisted
living facilities," Journal of the
American Geriatric Society, Nov
2004, 52 (11):1951-4.
Cawdery, M, Burg, MD, "Emergency medicine career paths less traveled:
cruise ship medicine, Indian health, and critical care medicine," Annals of Emergency Medicine, Jul
2004, 44(1):79 -83.
Schlagenhauf, P et al. "Focus on cruise ship travel," Journal of Travel Medicine,
May-June 2004, 11(3):191-3.
Dahl, E "Social status versus formal rank of medical and other
officers -- an informal survey among passengers and seafarers on cruise
ships," International Maritime Health,
2004, 55(1-4):165-75.
Brewer PA, Barry M. "Survey of web-based health care information
for prospective cruise line passengers," Journal of Travel Medicine, Jul-Aug
2002, 9(4):194-7.
Market, JM. "Invest yourself. Adventures in nursing aboard a
cruise ship," Nursing Forum,
Apr-Jun 2002, 37(2):33-6.
Foley, SM, Marrone J, Simon M. "Cruise ships and kayaks: welfare
and rehabilitation approaches for women with disabilities in poverty," Bahavioural Science and Law, 2002,
20(6):659-80.
Au WW, Green M. "Acoustic interaction of humpback
whales and whale-watching boats," Marine Environment
Research, Jun 2000, 49(5):469-81.
"Entertainer wins settlement for denial of job on cruise ship," AIDS Policy Law, Jan 24 1997,
12(1):1, 14-5.
McElvaine MD, McDowell RM, Fite RW, et al. "An
assessment of the risk of foreign animal disease introduction into the
United States of America through garbage from Alaskan cruise ships,
Review of Science and Technology, Dec 1993,
12(4):1165-74.
Riddick FA, Jordan JD. "Cruise ship anisocoria," Annals
of Internal Medicine, Jul 1 1992, 117(1):95.
Lukavskiij MI, Vasilevskiij AI, Sinitsyn VS.
"Experience in organizing a rest during the cruise for the ship's
crew on a hospital ship" Voen
Med Zh
(USSR), Nov 1988, (11):45-6.
Drew CP. "Cruise ship dentistry," CAL, Sep 1985, 49(3):14, 18-9.
Vorob'ev AA. "Hygienic substantiation of the
comfort conditions for the microclimate of shipboard premises taking
into account the acclimatization changes in sailors on a cruise,"
Gig Sanit (USSR), Jun 1976, (6):24-8.
Dahl E. "Venereal diseases among seamen. Venereal
diseases among Norwegian and foreign staff on a Norwegian cruise ship
in the Carribbean during 2 and one-half years of sailing,"
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen(Norway), Dec 10
1974, 94(34-36):2372-4.
Jordan H, Kleinsorge H. "Maritime climate
therapy. Specified therapeutic indication and organization of the
cruise," Allerg
Asthmaforsch
(Germany, East), 1969, 6:25-7.