Celebrity Cruises is ending the current voyage of the Celebrity Mercury early as it continues to grapple with an outbreak of stomach illness that now has marred three voyages in a row.
Several travel agents with customers on board the 1,870-passenger vessel tell USA TODAY it is skipping today's port call in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, and sailing straight for it's home port of Charleston due to another flare-up of a stomach bug marked by diarrhea and vomiting -- presumably the same one that plagued the last two voyages of the ship
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Cruise line: 350 sick aboard ship in Caribbean
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- About 350 people were responding well to medicine after getting sick on a cruise to the Caribbean that departed from South Carolina, the cruise line said Tuesday.
Celebrity Cruise spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez said 326 of the more than 1,800 passengers on the Celebrity Mercury began complaining Sunday of upset stomachs, vomiting and diarrhea. Martinez says 27 of the nearly 850 crew members also reported symptoms.
The ship left Charleston on Feb. 15, the first departure in a newly-expanded year-round schedule of cruises from South Carolina as the industry expands in the state.
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Celebrity Cruise spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez said 326 of the more than 1,800 passengers on the Celebrity Mercury began complaining Sunday of upset stomachs, vomiting and diarrhea. Martinez says 27 of the nearly 850 crew members also reported symptoms.
The ship left Charleston on Feb. 15, the first departure in a newly-expanded year-round schedule of cruises from South Carolina as the industry expands in the state.
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