About 220 passengers aboard the Norwegian Cruise Lines ship, Pride of Hawaii, fell ill because of a highly contagious Norwalk virus. The norovirus caused stomach flu, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea in passengers after they returned Monday to Honolulu following a seven-day cruise around the islands.

Janice Okubo, spokeswoman for the Hawaii Department of Health said, "It's one of the common viruses we've been seeing on cruise lines. Most of the time, people recover

China's Ministry of Health on Monday revealed that some 1,326 people across the region died of infectious diseases between the months of September and October this year, with 660 and 666 recorded deaths respectively.

The Ministry has identified three classes of infectious diseases such as Class A (plague and cholera), Class B (25 infectious diseases including viral hepatitis) and Class C (10 infectious diseases such as influenza)

United Kingdom food retailer Sainsbury's has recalled a number of its tuna products due to fears these may make consumers ill. Recalled products include Sainsbury's and Taste the Difference fresh tuna steaks, fresh-diced tuna and fresh tuna from the fish counter.

Sainsbury's has advised the U.K. Food Standards Agency that these products may contain high levels of histamine

Due to a nationwide outbreak of cholera and other food-borne diseases like diarrhea, health officials on Thursday said a northern Vietnamese province has banned wedding banquets in restaurants and hotels.

Nguyen Trong Quynh, chief of the provincial People's Committee, said Thanh Hoa province had imposed a temporary ban on serving food at wedding parties and funerals

Representatives of the United Nations from different levels started monitoring the affected sites where viral cholera was found among the patients of diarrhea in Saptari district of Nepal.

The U.N. took the measure after the diarrhea spread throughout the district claimed 34 lives. The monitoring teams in the affected sites include UN officer Leath Beaker, Dr. Sarvesh Jha from UNFPA, Uma Adhikari from UNICEF among others, the ekantipure.com, a local news portal, reported