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<ul><li>The CDC randomly inspects and scores cruise ships to prevent the spread of stomach viruses.</li><li>So far, in 2024, 20 cruise ships have received a <keyword id="20578970" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="perfect-score" source="keywords">perfect score</keyword>. </li><li>Norovirus can spread quickly on packed vessels.</li></ul>Cruise ships don't always have a squeaky-clean reputation for being ultra-clean. After all, there's a reason they've been infamously dubbed "floating Petri dishes." Not all floating resorts are created — or operated — equally. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention randomly conducts sanitary inspections on cruise ships throughout the year. So far in 2024, 20 vessels have received perfect scores. At the same time, the public health agency has reported 10 bacterial and viral outbreaks — mostly norovirus — on ships since the start of the year. Half have been on ships from <keyword id="20102018" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Royal-Caribbean" source="keywords">Royal Caribbean</keyword> Group's main cruise line and its Celebrity Cruises subsidiary. Overall, the number of outbreaks so far is fewer than in 2023, which saw 14 in total. <div type="image" title="img670584923f2165d716df579e" height="3680" width="7360" msid="114117469" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Royal Caribbean&amp;#39;s Radiance of the Seas had two outbreaks in 2024, one from norovirus and the other from salmonella.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The highly contagious norovirus, also known as the stomach flu, is the most common virus to afflict cruises. These often-packed floating hotels create the ideal environment for the highly contagious bug to spread fast, typically through contaminated water, food, surfaces, and people. Just as quickly, it can ruin your vacation — the four predominant symptoms are vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, and stomach pain. To help mitigate these incidents, the CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program regularly inspects cruise liners and scores them from zero to 100. <div type="image" title="16 Cruise liner MSC Meraviglia is berthed at a dock in Punta Langosta in Cozumel" height="1333" width="1777" msid="114117473" hostid="261"></div> The review — which includes checking common spaces such as kitchens, pools, and children's activity centers — is random and unannounced. As expected, vermin and improperly stored foods are a big no-no. But inspectors are also closely watching behind the scenes for smaller, more-nuanced details such as how frequently the hair and lint strainer in the swimming pool is disinfected or the water temperature of the dish washer. So far, in 2024, the CDC has performed 119 inspections. The majority scored above 95, and 20 (listed below) have received perfect marks: <ul><li>Carnival Spirit — Carnival Cruise Line (inspected September 3)</li><li>Zuiderdam — Holland America Line (inspected August 24)</li><li>Viking Orion — Viking Ocean Cruises (inspected August 18)</li><li>Seabourn Odyssey — Seabourn Cruise Line (inspected August 16)</li><li>Norwegian Jewel — Norwegian Cruise Line (inspected July 24)</li><li>Oceania Regatta — Oceania Cruises (inspected July 24)</li><li>Radiance of the Seas — Royal Caribbean International (inspected July 21)</li><li>MSC Meraviglia — MSC Cruises (inspected July 9)</li><li>Norwegian Bliss — Norwegian Cruise Line (inspected June 22)</li><li>MSC Seashore — MSC Cruises (inspected May 26)</li><li>Norwegian Sky — Norwegian Cruise Line (inspected May 23)</li><li>Brilliance of the Seas — Royal Caribbean International (inspected May 16)</li><li>Viking Polaris — Viking (inspected April 2)</li><li>Celebrity Equinox — Celebrity Cruises (inspected February 25)</li><li>Norwegian Breakaway — Norwegian Cruise Line (inspected February 25)</li><li>Norwegian Escape — Norwegian Cruise Line (inspected January 27)</li><li>Explora I — MSC Cruises (inspected January 25)</li><li>Disney Fantasy — Disney Cruise Line (inspected January 24)</li><li>Celebrity Ascent — Celebrity Cruises (inspected January 7)</li><li>Norwegian Gem — Norwegian Cruise Line (inspected January 2)</li></ul> This time last year, 29 ships had achieved 100. By the end of 2023, 34 vessels racked a perfect score. Correction — October 17, 2024: An earlier version of this story contained an incorrect photo caption. The causes of outbreaks on Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas ship were norovirus and salmonella, the CDC found. Also, an earlier version of this story incorrectly stated there are 18 ships that have received perfect scores so far this year. There are 20. Also, so far in 2024, the CDC has performed 119 inspections, not inspections on 119 individual ships, as some were repeat inspections.

These are the cleanest cruise ships this year, according to the CDC — including 18 with perfect scores       

15 cities in the US with the cleanest air, and how much houses cost there

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Tucker Carlson announced Tuesday that his show would be airing on Twitter. </li><li>Elon Musk responded by saying anything misleading would be flagged by community notes. </li></ul>Tucker Carlson is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tucker-carlson-to-bring-his-show-to-twitter-2023-5">moving his show from a traditional broadcasting outlet to Twitter</a> where he will be subject to the social media platform's fact-checking force, Community Notes.The conservative TV host, who built a loyal following on a brand of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-tonight.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alarmist and at times, extremist views</a>, announced on Tuesday that he'll bring a "new version" of his show to Twitter in an attempt to combat what he described as "thinly disguised propaganda outlets" on cable news.Following Carlson's announcement, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said the show will be marked for any misleading information through <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-renames-birdwatch-community-notes-touts-improving-accuracy-2022-11">Community Notes</a> — a feature that relies on an aggregation of user ratings to determine if a fact-check is helpful. A clarifying message appears underneath a tweet for public view if enough contributors "from different points of view" rate the note as helpful, <a href="https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/community-notes#:~:text=Community%20Notes%20aim%20to%20create,publicly%20shown%20on%20a%20Tweet." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Twitter's guide</a>."On this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact, critique and refute whatever is said," Musk said. "And, of course, anything misleading will get @CommunityNotes."Assuming Musk doesn't introduce changes to Twitter that may cater to certain <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-right-wing-extremism-twitter-mythology-of-the-center-2022-12">viewpoints</a>, Carlson's shift to a platform with a built-in fact-checking feature could be an issue for the notorious offender of misleading information.The TV host's history of making untrue statements is well documented on third-party fact-checking sites such as<a href="https://www.politifact.com/personalities/tucker-carlson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Politifact</a> and <a href="https://www.snopes.com/search/tucker%20carlson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Snopes</a>.Days after the 2020 election, for example, Carlson <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/nov/09/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-wrong-arizona-voting-machines-not-l/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">falsely claimed</a> that "electronic voting machines didn't allow people to vote" in Maricopa County, Arizona. In July 2021, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/20/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-spins-web-misleading-claims-he-alle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he continued to sow doubt</a> around the election result, claiming "there actually was meaningful voter fraud in Fulton County, Georgia."Similar messages claiming election fraud that were platformed on Fox News led to the blockbuster defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, which <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-settles-dominion-defamation-lawsuit-trial-2023-4">Fox settled for $787.5 million</a>.Court records revealed how <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/texts-from-the-dominion-lawsuit-reveal-the-real-fox-news-2023-3">Carlson privately doubted and raised frustrations around election fraud claims</a>. But his show and other anchors on the channel rarely reflected those misgivings. In contrast, Fox News anchors make a habit of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/laura-ingraham-airs-misleading-images-mocks-fact-checkers-for-busting-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">railing against</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1SDSUdvL34" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mocking "fact checkers."</a>In a separate slander lawsuit filed against the network, Fox's lawyers successfully argued that viewers should understand that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen-mcdougal-case-tucker-carlson-2020-9">Carlson is not "stating actual facts."</a> A federal judge concurred with the lawyers, dismissing the suit and stating that no "reasonable viewer" should take him seriously.Carlson didn't specify what his new show will look like on Twitter. There's also no guarantee that he'll consistently be scrutinized by a fact check. Not every piece of misleading or false information on the platform is publicly marked by a Community Note.The feature relies on users who <a href="https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/contributing/sign-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed up to be a contributor</a> to rate "in good faith" the helpfulness of a note that might add more context to a tweet, for example. Twitter also takes into account the users' previous rating history to determine if they "seem to come from different perspectives." When enough people from different points of view rate a note as "helpful," the Community Note will appear, according to Twitter."If people who typically disagree in their ratings agree that a given note is helpful, it's probably a good indicator the note is helpful to people from different points of view," <a href="https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/contributing/diversity-of-perspectives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter's guide states</a>.In addition, <a href="https://twitter.com/i/communitynotes/download-data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data behind Community Notes</a> show that the feature sometimes marks a tweet as a "personal opinion," concluding that a note is not necessary.When <a href="https://twitter.com/i/communitynotes/rated_helpful" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a note does appear on a tweet</a>, it often comes with citations from "reliable sources" — sometimes relying on <a href="https://twitter.com/Sarahjesse14/status/1655292550268215299?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wikipedia</a> or the <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticsVerse/status/1656044412588179481?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">very mainstream media outlets</a> that Carlson and Musk often take aim at.Musk did not respond to a detailed list of questions about how Community Notes operates. Carlson's attorney did not respond to a request for comment.Musk himself has been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-twitter-must-be-most-accurate-source-of-information-earth-2022-11">prey for misinformation on the platform</a>, despite his purported mission statement to make Twitter "the most accurate source of information about the world."On Friday, the Twitter CEO responded to a chart that was tweeted by an account called "End Wokeness." It suggested the media has an anti-white bias and focuses on "White On Black" crime. The tweet appeared to respond to the media coverage of the death of <a href="https://www.insider.com/jordan-neely-daniel-penny-chokehold-killing-nyc-subway-homeless-2023-5">Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless Black man </a>who died after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/daniel-penny-marine-veteran-killed-jordan-neely-chokehold-death-2023-5">ex-Marine Daniel Penny</a>, who is white, put him in a chokehold."Odd, why would the media misrepresent the real situation to such an extreme degree?" Musk wrote, appearing to accept the information presented by the chart.The graph, which first<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/conservative-review/can-incarceration-rates-racist-reflect-actual-crime-rates" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> appeared on the conservative media site, The Blaze, in 2019</a>, excluded several other statistics, including "White on White" and "Black on Black" crime, <a href="https://popular.info/p/elon-musks-obsession-with-anti-white" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Judd Legum wrote in his Popular Information newsletter</a>. <a href="https://eji.org/news/report-documents-racial-bias-in-coverage-of-crime-by-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Studies have also shown</a> that media bias against criminal defendants who are people of color continues to persist.The graph was viewed 17.4 million times and liked by more than 152,000 users as of Thursday.A Community Notes suggestion did not appear below the tweet.

Elon Musk says Tucker Carlson will be subject to Twitter's fact-checking force, Community Notes. This might be a problem for a TV host whose record on Snopes isn't exactly the cleanest.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Disney Cruise LinesDisney Cruise Lines' Disney Dream.</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Of the more than 200 active cruise ships the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has <a href="https://wwwn.cdc.gov/InspectionQueryTool/InspectionSearch.aspx">inspected</a>, most received a passing grade: at least an 86 on a 100-point sanitation score.</li><li>A handful have received a 100 on their most recent inspection, indicating a level of cleanliness that would be difficult to top.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>Most cruise ships are pretty clean, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which <a href="https://wwwn.cdc.gov/InspectionQueryTool/InspectionSearch.aspx">inspects ships</a> to make sure they maintain proper sanitation.Of the more than 200 active cruise ships the CDC has inspected, most received a passing grade: at least an 86 on a 100-point sanitation score. A handful received a 100 on their most recent inspection, indicating a level of cleanliness that would be difficult to top.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-nastiest-cruise-ships-2019-5">These are the 8 nastiest cruise ships</a>These are the 20 cruise ships that currently operate in the US market and received a perfect score during their most recent CDC inspection.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Boeing</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/skytrax">Skytrax</a> on Tuesday released its annual rankings of the best airlines in plenty of categories. </li><li>As far as clean cabins go, Eva Air took top honors. </li><li>The British consulting firm asked travelers to rate airlines according to cleanliness of seats, carpets, washrooms, and more. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>Skytrax has released its annual ranking of the world's airlines.Among the many prestigious categories is the ranking of carriers according to their cabin cleanliness."Passengers rated the standards and quality of cleanliness in the aircraft cabin for airlines," the British consulting firm said. "Cleanliness and presentation of seat areas, tables, carpets, cabin panels and washrooms all contribute toward the final results."Here's which airlines passengers said had the cleanest planes:

New Delhi, Feb 19 () India will switch to the world's cleanest petrol and diesel from April 1 as it leapfrogs straight to Euro-VI emission compliant fuels from Euro-IV grades now - a feat achieved in just three years and not seen in any of the large economies around the globe.India will join the select league of nations using petrol and diesel containing just 10 parts per million of sulphur as it looks to cut vehicular emissions that are said to be one of the reasons for the choking pollution in major cities.Sanjiv Singh, Chairman of Indian Oil Corp (IOC) - the firm that controls roughly half of the country's fuel market, said almost all refineries began producing ultra-low sulphur BS-VI (equivalent to Euro-VI grade) petrol and diesel by the end of 2019 and oil companies have now undertaken the tedious task of replacing every drop of fuel in the country with the new one."We are absolutely on track for supplying BS-VI fuel from April 1. Almost all refineries have begun supplying BS-VI fuel and the same has reached storage depots across the country," he said. From storage depots, the fuel has started travelling to petrol pumps and in the next few weeks all of them will only have BS-VI grade petrol and diesel, he said. "We are 100 per cent confident that fuel that will flow from nozzles at all the petrol pumps in the country on April 1 will be BS-VI emission compliant fuel." India adopted Euro-III equivalent (or Bharat Stage-III) fuel with a sulphur content of 350 ppm in 2010 and then took seven years to move to BS-IV that had a sulphur content of 50 ppm. From BS-IV to BS-VI it took just three years. "It was a conscious decision to leapfrog to BS-VI as first upgrading to BS-V and then shifting to BS-VI would have prolonged the journey to 4 to 6 years. Besides, oil refineries, as well as automobile manufacturers, would have had to make investments twice - first to producing BS-V grade fuel and engines and then BS-VI ones," he said. State-owned oil refineries spent about Rs 35,000 crore to upgrade plants that could produce ultra-low sulphur fuel. This investment is on top of Rs 60,000 crore they spent on refinery upgrades in the previous switchovers. BS-VI has a sulphur content of just 10 ppm and emission standards are as good as CNG. Originally, Delhi and its adjoining towns were to have BS-VI fuel supplies by April 2019 and the rest of the country was to get same supplies from April 2020. But oil marketing companies switched over to supply of BS-VI grade fuels in the national capital territory of Delhi on April 1, 2018. The supply of BS-VI fuels was further extended to four contiguous districts of Rajasthan and eight of Uttar Pradesh in the National Capital Region (NCR) on April 1, 2019, together with the city of Agra. BS-VI grade fuels were made available in 7 districts of Haryana from October 1, 2019. Singh said the new fuel will result in a reduction in NOx in BS-VI compliant vehicles by 25 per cent in petrol cars and by 70 per cent in diesel cars. The switchover, he said, is a tedious task as every drop of old, higher-sulphur content fuel has to be flushed out in depots, pipelines and tanks before being replaced by BS-VI. "We are confident of disruption-free switchover to BS-VI supplies across the country," he said. "What we will be supplying is the best quality available anywhere in the world. You don't have any better fuel that is supplied in any part of the world. Perhaps our BS-VI fuel will be better than equivalent fuel in some parts of the US and Europe." India adopted a fuel upgradation programme in the early 1990s. Low lead gasoline (petrol) was introduced in 1994 in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. On February 1, 2000, unleaded gasoline was mandated nationwide. Similarly, BS-2000 (Euro-I equivalent, BS-1) vehicle emission norms were introduced for new vehicles from April 2000. BS-II (Euro-II equivalent) emission norms for new cars were introduced in Delhi from 2000 and extended to the other metro cities in 2001. Benzene limits have been reduced progressively from 5 per cent in 2000 to 1 per cent nationwide. Lead content in gasoline was removed in phases and only unleaded gasoline is being produced and sold from February 1, 2000. The octane number of gasoline signifies the improved performance of the engine. Loss in octane number due to phasing out of lead was made up by installing new facilities in the refinery and changes in refinery operation. RON (Research Octane Number) of gasoline for BS-2000 spec was increased to 88. This has over time been increased to 91. Singh said sulphur reduction will reduce Particulate Matter (PM) emissions even in the in-use older generation diesel vehicles. ANZ MKJ

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