Norovirus loves a cruise ship. So did the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. The crowded rooms, stuffy air, and communal dining of a giant boat filled with humans create the ideal conditions for pathogens to spread.

A suspected hantavirus outbreak, a rare but deadly disease that attacks the lungs, killed three people and several others have become severely ill aboard a luxury cruise ship.

A star-studded cruise ship with some of Broadway’s biggest names — including Tony Award-winners Patti LuPone,, Norbert Leo Butz and Adrienne Warren — is setting sail from Florida to Mexico and the Bahamas next spring.

The first victim of a suspected hantavirus outbreak had already been ⁠dead ⁠21 days when fellow passenger Jake Rosmarin posted a ⁠video about cows he had seen on a remote volcanic island in the Atlantic,