It's a traveler's worst nightmare: you escape on a Caribbean cruise and suddenly everybody around you starts throwing up and has a bad case of diarrhea. For more than 400 people on a Celebrity Cruise out of South Carolina, this week that nightmare is a reality.
Nearly one out of every four passengers aboard the Celebrity Mercury has been struck with a "gastrointestinal illness," according to Cynthia Martinez, a spokeswoman for Celebrity and its parent company Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
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