When I boarded Riverside Luxury Cruises’ Debussy in Frankfurt last December with my three-year-old son, I had one big worry: This could go sideways fast. The nearly weeklong Christmas cruise would ...

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A small ship changes the geometry of a cruise. Where a large vessel turns an itinerary into a series of port stops between days at sea, a small ship makes the journey itself part of the destination.

Cruise ships are convenient floating hotels by which to see far-flung parts of the world—but as an epidemiologist, I know they are also everything an infectious pathogen could want: thousands of ...

Passengers on the the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius watch epidemiologists board the boat in Praia, Cape Verde, on May 6, 2026. AP Photo/Uncredited Cruise ships are convenient floating ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) Cruise ships are ...