Today, let's go through a bit of a CDC update, both in terms of some viral outbreaks aboard

cruise ships and also some major changes that are coming down the pike in terms of the

childhood vaccine schedule across the whole country.

Let's start though with the ships.

Up on your screen right now is a report that was released by the CDC detailing a large viral

outbreak on a cruise ship which was traveling

from Colombia back to the U.S. In their official release, the CDC said that 98 people

aboard a cruise ship called the Serenade of the Seas became sick with something known as

norovirus. According to the breakdown, 94 passengers, alongside four members of the crew,

began to experience symptoms of diarrhea, abdominal cramps, vomiting, and headaches, all of which

are symptoms of the norovirus. Furthermore, it's perhaps worth noting that this is actually

the 19th time this year that the CDC reported on an outbreak of one of these gastrointestinal

illnesses on board a cruise ship.

In fact, as you can see up on your screen, out of the 19 reported ships thus far this

year, 14 of them were discovered to be infected with the norovirus.

And for the others, you have three unknown outbreaks.

You have one outbreak of E. coli and an other one

that was presumed to be fish poisoning. Now, getting back to this most recent outbreak, once the

passengers on board the serenade of the seas, once they began to get sick one after another,

the cruise line took a number of steps to try and mitigate the level of damage,

including they disinfected the common areas,

as well as, funny enough, they began to collect stool samples from the passengers

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