Plague upon the waters: How a disease-ridden steamboat spread yellow fever
When COVID-19 began to spread globally, the first large case cluster outside China wasn’t in another country. It was on a cruise ship: the Diamond Princess.
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An early COVID-19 cluster was on a cruise ship, continuing a tradition of disease spreading at sea
Posted: Mar 07, 2021 6:00 AM NT | Last Updated: March 7
A ship flies a yellow flag, signalling yellow fever, at a safe distance from a port. Watercolour by E. Schwarz-Lenoir painted between 1920 and 1950.(The Wellcome Collection)