The news comes as the U.S. battles a new strain of norovirus and cruise lines face an upsurge in onboard outbreaks. The VSP’s ...

Even after staff reductions, norovirus outbreaks continue to be reported from cruise ships - most recently from Viking ...

The program responsible for overseeing the cleanliness of cruise ships has been gutted, but the CDC believes layoffs will not ...

The federal government's Vessel Sanitation Program continues its health inspections of cruise ships despite recent staff ...

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said cruise ship inspections will continue amid government layoffs, an official said the task will be more challenging for remaining workers. The ...

The CDC noted that the outbreak occurred on the Viking Polaris cruise ship, which departed on Friday, April 11 ...

The cuts are problematic for Florida, where passengers disembark from cruise ships with gastrointestinal viruses and often ...

Staffers working as part of a CDC program that monitors and investigates cruise ship outbreaks were recently laid off, ...

The Trump administration’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has laid off all full-time staff from the CDC’s Vessel ...

The CDC cut employees from its Vessel Sanitation Program this week, even as a cruise ship arrived days ago with another ...

The CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP), which inspects cruise ships, has been impacted by recent staffing cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services. While ship inspections will ...