Poorly cleaned public cruise ship restrooms may predict norovirus outbreaks
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 05:49
in Health & Medicine
A team of researchers from Boston University School (BUSM), Carney Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance and Tufts University School of Medicine, have found that widespread poor compliance with regular cleaning of public restrooms on cruise ships may predict subsequent norovirus infection outbreaks (NoVOs). This study, which appears in the 1 November issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, is the first study of environmental hygiene on cruise ships...
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