Fog, not 180 sick, cited for cruise end

HOUSTON - A cruise ship that had more than 180 passengers and crew members fall sick with an apparent stomach virus returned to a Houston-area port early because of a dense fog advisory and not because people were throwing up and had diarrhea, a Princess Cruises spokesman said Friday.

But passengers whose seven-day vacation was cut short, missing their last stop in Belize, questioned that version of events.

They said crew members announced on the second day of the cruise that people were sick, apparently with highly contagious norovirus, and that extra precautions were being taken to ensure it didn’t spread.

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