Celebrity Cruises' Mercury Passengers Fall Ill

Celebrity Cruises' Mercury vessel saw 122 of its passengers comes down with a mysterious illness that required them to be quarantined during a cruise last week, The Seattle Post Intelligencer is reporting. The Mercury has had a bad run of late. It was the third time in four months that the boat saw one of its cruises marred by passengers falling ill. The cause of this latest quarantine is not yet known, but the cruise line has attributed other incidents to an extremely contagious norovirus, commonly known as Norwalk, the paper reported.