Outbreak Ruins Cruise Ship Vacation

Last Thursday they left Mobile for Mexico, but less than 24 hours into the trip, 121 passengers and 22 crew members came down with a gastrointestinal illness.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is analyzing lab specimens to determine what may have caused the illnesses. They have not confirmed whether it is the Norovrius, as News 5 first reported Monday. Gastrointestinal illnesses, like the Norovirus, are often spread through food, water, and surfaces such as stair rails, door handles, and elevator buttons
Donna Urban told News Five she couldn't eat anything and when she sought medical attention, there was a line of passengers in the ship's infirmary.
Urban said her vacation was ruined.
"I don't feel like I want to ever want to go on another cruise. I just didn't feel that this ship was clean. I just don't really think it was clean. I never saw anybody wiping down the handle bars where you walk down the stairs railing. I never saw anybody doing that," said Donna Urban of Blairsville, Georgia.
Carnival Cruise lines says it has sanitized the ship and is working closely with the CDC to determine what caused the outbreak.
The holiday left Monday afternoon on a five-day voyage to Mexico.