The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars ...

All full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program were laid off this week ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is abandoning ship on monitoring cruise-related outbreaks of norovirus and ...

Despite recent layoffs at Health and Human Services, the CDC confirmed its Vessel Sanitation Program will continue.

“Critical programs in the CDC will continue under Secretary Kennedy’s vision to streamline HHS to better serve Americans. CDC ...

The Trump administration’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has laid off all full-time staff from the CDC’s Vessel ...

Since the start of 2025, there have been 12 outbreaks on cruise ships, mostly caused by norovirus, according to CDC records.

The most recent inspection was Cunard Line’s Queen Victoria on March 14, 2025, receiving a score of 96 out of 100. On March ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention laid off all its cruise ship inspectors, which would severely damage efforts ...

The steep cuts to the program's inspectors baffled CDC officials since the small team's staff is not paid for by taxpayer dollars. Fees from cruise ships companies pay for the program, which is ...

A major overhaul of the agency that began with thousands of layoffs on April 1 axed a critical environmental health division ...