STAY HEALTHY ON YOUR NEXT CRUISE ~
*Regardless of where or how you travel, follow these simple
tips to prevent Norovirus, swine flu and other illnesses!











*NOTE: Use these simple precautions on planes, trains, in hotels, on a cruise ship to
stay healthy next time you travel:

With cruise season to Alaska and Europe hitting full-throttle, it brings with it the
Norovirus (24-48hr stomach flu with symptoms of vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, chills and
weakness).  Most ships sailing the waters off North America, and many in Europe, will
have hand-sanitizer stations.  Not all do and not everyone uses them.  

Keep yourself healthy on your upcoming cruise by observing a few of the following
germ-avoiding tactics:

- When you first arrive at your cabin, put on your rubber gloves.
- Spray or wipe everything down with a disinfectant product (such as Lysol or Clorox).
Make sure to get door handles, walls, floors, ceilings, beds, shower curtains, phones,
remotes, etc.  

- Remove the bedspread and place in the closet.  Leave the cabin steward a note to
leave the bedspread off for the entire cruise (you'd be horrified with the nasty things on
those bedspreads).

- Ask the cabin steward to put an extra sheet on the top of your blanket (who knows
when it was last cleaned) - known as triple sheeting.

- If you go to the buffet, use one hand for handling the tongs and the other hand for
eating food.  You don't know where other hands have been.

- Food that is cooked will typically be safer to eat than food that isn't - remember that the
Norovirus often comes from food-handling staff who don't wash their hands properly (if at
all) after using the toilet.

- Wash your hands frequently and keep them away from your mouth, eyes and nose.

You may think these tips are over-much and paranoid, but think how much you spent for
your cruise and why you're there - you're probably not on vacation to spend 2-5 days
locked up in your cabin, only making friends with the toilet.

http://children.webmd.com/tc/noroviruses-topic-overview




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