The intensive growth of cruise tourism worldwide during recent decades is leading to
growing concerns over the sector's global environmental and health impacts. This review …

Las mejoras en el suministro de agua son oportunidades para solucionar problemas de
salud pública. De ahí la importancia de establecer modelos de evaluación y gestión integral …

Noroviruses are recognized as the leading cause of human acute viral gastroenteritis
worldwide. The rate of outbreaks on cruise ships has grown significantly in recent years …

Despite the skyrocketing growth in recent decades of environmental studies on ports and
shipping, their local health impacts remain largely under-researched. This article tackles this …

The confined environment of a ship promotes the transmission of the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) due to close contact among the …

Introduction. Telemedicine has been able to bring healthcare services to all people in far
locations such as the sea. Our main objective was to overview the main features …

We describe a series of 15 Haff disease cases from an outbreak in Salvador, Brazil, starting
early December 2016. Eleven cases were grouped in four family clusters of two to four …

Respiratory diseases are common infectious illnesses on cruise ships. This study integrated
an individual-to-individual probability model, a susceptible-exposed-infected-recovered …

Aims To determine the cause of an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis that occurred on a
cruise ship sailing along the Yangzi River from Chongqing to Nanjing, China. Methods and …

Background. The awareness of health risks on board ships in terms of knowledge of
dangers and discomfort at the workplace, and of risks of contracting communicable diseases …