20 years ago I had sinus/ear infections on a cruise ship off Greece. Saw the ship's MD who gave me an antibiotic and antihistamine. $30.
On an earlier cruise through the Panama Canal on Cunard's old and rather small ship, Ariadne, a group of very sick passengers boarded in Acapulco. Of course the bug got passed around. Some were so ill they never left their cabins. The ship's MD was exhausted. The CDC boarded and changed dining room and other protocols, no handshakes and so on. At some point one or more were evacuated by helicopter. I had an antibiotic I had picked up at the airport in Mexico City which I started prophylactically and never became ill. Then on its way through the canal the ship got pulled into the side of a lock in the canal which jammed a loading door shut. What a trip! I haven't a clue what the ill passengers had to pay.
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