The future of cruising may not include obsessive hand sanitizing and bouts in the bathroom while everyone else is onshore. That's because a research team at the Baylor College of Medicine is hard at work on -- drum roll, please -- a norovirus vaccine.

Traditional media is starting to pick up on the food safety nonsense coming out of the Fat Duck, Heston Blumenthal’s signature restaurant that sickened 529 with norovirus from raw oysters – and staff – in 2009. The Guardian reports today the Fat Duck fiasco was the largest restaurant-related norovirus outbreak, ever.

Research published today by the Food Standards Agency shows that a significant proportion (76%) of oysters tested from UK oyster growing beds contained norovirus. The virus was detected at low levels in more than half of the positive samples (52%). Dr Andrew Wadge, the FSA's chief scientist, told the BBC the research has not identified any new food safety risk.

Fast Facts • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat certain ASSI Brand frozen oysters from Korea following an outbreak of illness in Washington state caused by norovirus.