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The latest stories on yet another boat-load of sick cruise-ship passengers begin to ask if any special "outbreak" of the Norwalk or a related virus is underway. About time.
Put a couple thousand land-lubbin' people in close quarters on a big, rolling ship, and ply them with rich, unfamiliar food, and in the winter when various bugs flourish, and maybe ten percent or so -- the headlines "hundreds" -- get sick. Is this really out of the norm?
Or is it the latest easy to plot, script, and report media-made hype?
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Mark S.|12.9.02 @ 11:57AM|#
Virus nothin' me hartees! Yon lubber just 'ave the Scurvy! Give them a pint of rum or keel-haul the dogs!
Sorry... I was channeling Robert Newton for a second.