The news comes as the U.S. battles a new strain of norovirus and cruise lines face an upsurge in onboard outbreaks. The VSP’s ...

Staffers working as part of a CDC program that monitors and investigates cruise ship outbreaks were recently laid off, ...

How will cleanliness on ships be impacted as the CDC lays off cruise ship inspectors? CBS travel editor Peter Greenberg ...

The cuts are problematic for Florida, where passengers disembark from cruise ships with gastrointestinal viruses and often ...

Despite recent layoffs at Health and Human Services, the CDC confirmed its Vessel Sanitation Program will continue.

The CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP), which inspects cruise ships, has been impacted by recent staffing cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services. While ship inspections will continue, ...

The steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars ...

In a move that feels like cutting your brakes on the way down a hill, the CDC laid off its entire team from the Vessel ...

The Trump administration’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has laid off all full-time staff from the CDC’s Vessel ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fired all sanitation inspectors for cruise ships despite their payroll not ...

Recent media stories about the status of cruise ship health inspections have confused companies and consumers because of staff reductions at the Centers ...

The CDC cut employees from its Vessel Sanitation Program this week, even as a cruise ship arrived days ago with another ...