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France confines more than 1,700 on cruise ship after suspected norovirus death
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- By: FRANCE 24 File photo of a cruise ship operated by Ambassador Cruise Line.
- The Ambassador Cruise Line ship – with a majority of the 1,233 passengers from Britain or Ireland – arrived in the western port of Bordeaux on Tuesday.
- One 90-year-old passenger on the Ambition had died and about 50 people have shown symptoms of norovirus, health officials said.
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More than 1,700 passengers and crew have been confined on a cruise ship docked in the French city of Bordeaux after a 90-year-old passenger died from a suspected case of norovirus, a highly contagious form of gastroenteritis.
By: FRANCE 24 File photo of a cruise ship operated by Ambassador Cruise Line. © John Mac Dougall, AFP French authorities on Wednesday confined more than 1,700 passengers and crew on a cruise ship docked in Bordeaux after a passenger died from a suspected norovirus, officials said.
The Ambassador Cruise Line ship – with a majority of the 1,233 passengers from Britain or Ireland – arrived in the western port of Bordeaux on Tuesday.
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