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Re: Quick report 4/18-25
[Re: spiker]
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04/28/2015 02:54 PM
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There has been some on and off Legionaire's disease reported in the Maho area over the past couple of years. Perhaps that was it.
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Re: Quick report 4/18-25
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04/28/2015 07:33 PM
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Carol_Hill said: There has been some on and off Legionaire's disease reported in the Maho area over the past couple of years. Perhaps that was it. Carol....not sure where you are getting your information...but NEVER have heard any case of Legionaire's at Royal Islander...NEVER!!!!! BTW....we got back three weeks ago from there, and drank the water at times....and never had one minute of ''discomfort''. BTW..neither of us do escargot. To come up with Legionaire's with only one person reporting stomach problem is absolutely just wrong, and it's stuff like this that can get blown way out of proportion. As for the air conditioning at LaPlage, every room has their own thermostats now to control the temperature..( before only the fan speed was controlled). It sure sounds like the op may have picked up some bug....but obviously not from the room!!!! LaPlage has always been the cleanest of places. Twice a week the place gets a full cleaning, and in between customers, everything gets changed including all the sheets, all the bedspreads....and all of the cushion covers on the couch and chairs!!!
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Re: Quick report 4/18-25
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04/28/2015 07:56 PM
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Thanks for taking time to post an interesting report.
Next SXM visit -November 2023. Also January 2024.
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Re: Quick report 4/18-25
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04/28/2015 07:59 PM
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I said MAHO, not necessarily Royal Islander, but there have definitely been MANY, MANY, MANY cases of Legionaires reported in the Maho area in the past two years.. Cruise ships are some of the cleanest places on the planet and they often get the bug.
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Re: Quick report 4/18-25
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04/28/2015 08:04 PM
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Legionaires disease sufferers have reported nausea and vomiting also, but you may well be correct that this might have been more of an intestional issue. I remember a story in the Daily Herald very recently about intestional issues around the Maho area. Will try to look it up tomorrow.
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Re: Quick report 4/18-25
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04/29/2015 07:52 AM
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Carol_Hill said: ... Cruise ships are some of the cleanest places on the planet and they often get the bug. I agree Carol yet there are always intestinal problems aboard and they say it's Norvo virus brought aboard by passengers. Well, in my opinion---since the ship IS clean, it could be food poisoning. It happened on one of our cruises and we were confined to our stateroom. I had it hubby never did so I did my own investigation and found all those I spoke with that had it had eaten the mussels. Those that didn't were fine. Later I read a report about shellfish becoming contaminated due to high water temps. These ships take on supplies at different ports. Strange in our case that the onboard illness didn't take place until after the ship was underway and had made a port stop. Bottom line is who really knows what causes things. I got scombroid once from fresh tuna because, after we had it tested, found it had come in contact with a carcinogen. Hubby once got the other party's symptoms long after a meal on the island yet I didn't. So it could be anything---even touching a surface or swimming in a pool, or a parasite in the ocean which enters only those with broken skin.
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Re: Quick report 4/18-25
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04/29/2015 09:25 AM
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spiker said: no, that was days before. It just doesn't make sense. Maybe it was the water. I would make coffee every morning and my wife doesn't drink it. On Friday we ate a bagel in the morning, drank only bottled water for the rest of the day, then 4:00 I needed to get to the room! Been pretty miserable since. Doc's got me on Cipro just in case I caught something else. I hope your doctor took a culture before the cipro, it might tell you something. Both my husband and myself had the norvovirus a couple of years ago in SXM. There was a lot of it going around in the Maho area,as Carol mentioned. Funny though, he still feels it might have started from the escargot at the same restaurant and doesn't want to go back. I feel it was just a coincidence.
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Re: Quick report 4/18-25
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04/29/2015 06:34 PM
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Legionaires is still around yes, but it seems this was a gastro problem, which probably means noro, so I mis-spoke when I said legionaires. I didn't really have any time to look it up today, but there was a story in the Daily Herald within the past month, talking about gastro problems on SXM.
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