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

The VSP was established in 1975 to work with the cruise industry to protect travelers’ health. The program undertakes vessel ...

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

Only a dozen Public Health Service officers have reportedly been left to handle current and future ship inspections, which ...

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

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

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

Staffers working as part of a CDC program that monitors and investigates cruise ship outbreaks were recently laid off, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

which included cutting around 2,400 employees of the CDC. An official for the Department of Health and Human Services claimed that the cruise ship work will be able to continue, since many ...

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