FORT LAUDERDALE — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is monitoring a norovirus outbreak aboard the Caribbean Princess cruise ship, which departed Port Everglades on April 28. The outbreak was reported to the CDC on Thursday, May 7.

According to the CDC, 102 of the 3,116 passengers and 13 of the 1,131 crew members aboard the ship reported falling ill with norovirus symptoms. The main symptoms included diarrhea and vomiting.

The Caribbean Princess is on a 13-day voyage in the Caribbean with scheduled stops in the Bahamas, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. The ship is scheduled to dock at Port Canaveral in Orlando on May 11 to end its one-way cruise.

Princess Cruises increased cleaning and disinfection procedures, collected specimens for testing, isolated ill passengers and crew, and consulted with the CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program about cleaning procedures and illness reporting. The Vessel Sanitation Program is conducting a field response for an environmental assessment and outbreak investigation aboard the ship.

The Caribbean Princess outbreak follows several other gastrointestinal illness incidents on cruise ships in recent months. In March, a norovirus outbreak on the Star Princess sickened more than 104 passengers and 49 crew members. The Star Princess had departed from Fort Lauderdale, made stops in Honduras, Belize, and the Mexican Riviera, and returned to Port Everglades at the conclusion of its voyage. At the time that outbreak was reported, the ship was sailing from Belize City to Cozumel.

In early January, a norovirus outbreak on a Holland America cruise ship sickened more than 80 people after departing from Fort Lauderdale at the end of December. In February, 27 people were sickened in an outbreak of an unknown gastrointestinal illness aboard the Regent Seven Seas cruise ship while sailing from Miami to Honolulu. Norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships operated by major cruise lines occur periodically, according to the CDC.