Doctor explains worrying reason why he would never go on a cruise ship

A doctor has explained his worrying reason why he wouldn't go on board a cruise ship at the moment.

You might know by now that cruise ships are one of the perfect locations for disease to spread as you've got loads of people in very close proximity and many of them interacting with the same things.

So many people on the ship will be touching the same surfaces, eating from the same places and coming into close contact with any germs that someone could have brought with them.

Protocols are in place for cruise ships if they have an outbreak of something like norovirus, with several liners reporting outbreaks in recent weeks, while cruise ship staff have remarked that one aspect of life on board the liners are 'norovirus outbreaks that spread faster than gossip at the crew bar.'

TikToker Dr.Rubin recently popped up with a video where he gave his reason why he didn't want to be going aboard a cruise ship any time soon.

"Here's why you're not gonna see me on a cruise ship any time soon and I encourage people to consider this before they book a cruise," the doc said.

He then went on to talk about 'cuts at Federal health public agencies' over in the US, and warned that one of the agencies getting cut was the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) 'vessel sanitation program.'

That's the US body that does the health inspections for cruise ships a couple of times a year to make sure things are in the sort of condition they ought to be, and the doc warned that there were already more outbreaks of sickness this year.

He said: "We've already had 12 norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships this year, compared to eight last year."

Dr Rubin went on to say how stupid he thought this was, as it was the cruise ships which had to pay for the health inspectionsm so it was making things worse on ships while not saving taxpayer cash.

So that means there could be more cruise ships which are not properly inspected for health issues, and these hotbeds of disease could get even worse.

Cruise ships do have doctors on board to respond to medical emergencies, and one who has two decades of experience in the field said that they mostly did 'emergency services' as they responded to medical emergencies.

The ships have places to store dead bodies, but they can run out and if you're a passenger treated to a free ice cream party you might want to know what that means.

If they're handing out loads of free ice cream to cruise ship passengers, who knows, maybe it means more people on board have died than they have space in the morgue, so they're freeing up freezer space.

Enjoy your ice cream.