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Mississippi cruise canceled after second disease outbreak
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WINONA, Minn.
A Mississippi River cruise from St. Louis to St. Paul, Minnesota, has been canceled after a flu-like illness broke out on board for the second time in one week.
The Mississippi Queen had stops scheduled at La Crosse, Wisconsin, and the Minnesota towns of Red Wing and Winona.
The Delta Queen Steamboat Company canceled its fall foliage cruise on the 520-passenger Mississippi Queen after about 12 people had to be treated at a hospital in Hannibal, Missouri.A week earlier about 35 passengers got sick and were treated in Henderson, Kentucky.
The last two days of that cruise on the upper Ohio River from Cincinnati to St. Louis were canceled.Health officials think the illness is a form of Norwalk virus, which causes nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. It's transmitted through food, water or touch.
Symptoms usually disappear in one or two days.
A Mississippi River cruise from St. Louis to St. Paul, Minnesota, has been canceled after a flu-like illness broke out on board for the second time in one week.
The Mississippi Queen had stops scheduled at La Crosse, Wisconsin, and the Minnesota towns of Red Wing and Winona.
The Delta Queen Steamboat Company canceled its fall foliage cruise on the 520-passenger Mississippi Queen after about 12 people had to be treated at a hospital in Hannibal, Missouri.A week earlier about 35 passengers got sick and were treated in Henderson, Kentucky.
The last two days of that cruise on the upper Ohio River from Cincinnati to St. Louis were canceled.Health officials think the illness is a form of Norwalk virus, which causes nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. It's transmitted through food, water or touch.
Symptoms usually disappear in one or two days.