<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Many pathogenic micro-organisms are likely to attack passengers of cruise ships and other vessels or travel between continents as a peculiar type of a “stowaway”. The epidemiological tests conducted since 1987 with regard to watercraft led to the coining of a term known as the Sick Boat Syndrome (SBS). The main illnesses encountered on watercraft include gastrointestinal diseases (foodborne) and Legionellosis. Additionally, the ventilation and airconditioning systems of old commercial ships (the so-called Tramps) constitute a real technical challenge. Conditioned air (with removed undesired odour and micro-organisms) should constitute ca. 25% of circulating air. In practice this situation is not typical for vessels of this class. Unclean air poses a real hazard for the crew.</p></abstract>

Many pathogenic micro-organisms are likely to attack passengers of cruise ships and other vessels or travel between continents as a peculiar type of a “stowaway”. The epidemiological tests conducted since 1987 with regard to watercraft led to the coining of a term known as the Sick Boat Syndrome (SBS). The main illnesses encountered on watercraft include gastrointestinal diseases (foodborne) and Legionellosis. Additionally, the ventilation and airconditioning systems of old commercial ships (the so-called Tramps) constitute a real technical challenge. Conditioned air (with removed undesired odour and micro-organisms) should constitute ca. 25% of circulating air. In practice this situation is not typical for vessels of this class. Unclean air poses a real hazard for the crew.

Sick boat syndrome

Military Institute of Medicine, Maritime and Hyperbaric Medicine Institute of Gdynia, Poland

Polish Hyperbaric Research

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Many pathogenic micro-organisms are likely to attack passengers of cruise ships and other vessels or travel between continents as a peculiar type of a...

Sick boat syndrome

Publié en ligne: 14 mars 2016

Pages: -

Reçu: 15 oct. 2015

Accepté: 02 nov. 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/phr-2015-0025

Mots clés
Gastrointestinal diseases, Norwalk virus, Legionella, Sick Boat Syndrome

© 2015 Zbigniew Dąbrowiecki et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Sick boat syndrome

Publié en ligne: 14 mars 2016

Pages: -

Reçu: 15 oct. 2015

Accepté: 02 nov. 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/phr-2015-0025

Mots clésGastrointestinal diseases, Norwalk virus, Legionella, Sick Boat Syndrome

© 2015 Zbigniew Dąbrowiecki et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Gastrointestinal diseases, Norwalk virus, Legionella, Sick Boat Syndrome