On Cruise Ship, 5 Nights, 332 People Sick

If a 6% chance of getting violently ill sounds like good odds, your ship has unfortunately already sailed: The latest outbreak of gastrointestinal illness on the high seas struck Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas, reports CNN, with at least 332 affected on the five-night cruise. "It was just terrifying," says the mom of a 15-year-old boy who got sick. 

"Just the amount of people that were coming in at the same time with vomiting and diarrhea and just looked ghastly." The ship docked Saturday in Port Everglades, Fla., and a Royal Caribbean rep, who says that just 5.99% of more than 5,000 aboard were affected, says "we hope all our guests feel better quickly," and that the boat will "undergo special additional cleaning procedures before it departs on its next cruise." 

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