Overview
- Authorities confirm 95 of 2,007 guests (4.8%) and 6 of 640 crew (0.9%) have been counted as cases across the voyage.
- The CDC lists the outbreak date as December 4, 2025, following the ship’s visits to U.S. ports.
- AIDA says cleaning and disinfection have been intensified, passengers with symptoms are being tested, and sick guests and crew are isolated.
- The CDC is monitoring the situation remotely as the ship continues its 133-day itinerary through the Panama Canal toward the Pacific and Asia.
- This incident adds to a year of elevated cruise-ship norovirus activity, with some reports pointing to a possible GII.17 variant as a developing hypothesis.