Crown Princess outbreak update: Clostridium perfringens food poisoning implicated

Outbrake News Today

In a follow-up to a report last month of a gastrointestinal outbreak of unknown etiology on board the Princess Cruises vessel, Crown Princess, Vessel Sanitation Program officials are now reporting the causative agent of the outbreak that sickened nearly 200 passengers and crew was Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin.

 

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