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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 ...
The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars ...
The federal government's Vessel Sanitation Program continues its health inspections of cruise ships despite recent staff ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fired all sanitation inspectors for cruise ships despite their payroll not ...
The cuts are problematic for Florida, where passengers disembark from cruise ships with gastrointestinal viruses and often ...
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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is said to be lacking the resources to continue any cruise ship ...
The Trump administration’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has laid off all full-time staff from the CDC’s Vessel ...
Staffers working as part of a CDC program that monitors and investigates cruise ship outbreaks were recently laid off, ...
Despite recent layoffs at Health and Human Services, the CDC confirmed its Vessel Sanitation Program will continue.
How will cleanliness on ships be impacted as the CDC lays off cruise ship inspectors? CBS travel editor Peter Greenberg ...
The CDC cut employees from its Vessel Sanitation Program this week, even as a cruise ship arrived days ago with another ...