CDC Reports Gastrointestinal Outbreak on Luxury Cruise Ship

The CDC says 21 passengers and six crew members were sickened in an outbreak.

The Regent Seven Seas Navigator cruise ship calling in Charleston, S.C., can be seen from a marina in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. AP Photo/Bruce Smith

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday reported an gastrointestinal outbreak on a cruise ship operated by a luxury cruise company.

In a notice on the agency’s website, the CDC said 21 passengers out of 631 and six crew members out of 458 reported being ill on the Regent Seven Seas cruise ship, the Seven Seas Mariner.