The CDC cut employees from its Vessel Sanitation Program this week, even as a cruise ship arrived days ago with another norovirus outbreak among passengers and crew.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is abandoning ship on monitoring cruise-related outbreaks of norovirus and other stomach bugs. The federal government has reportedly fired all full-time staff in the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program—right in the middle of an especially disease-ridden year for cruises.