{"id":446697,"date":"2026-05-13T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446697\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:46:07","slug":"1700-kept-on-cruise-ship-after-suspected-norovirus-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446697\/","title":{"rendered":"1,700 kept on cruise ship after suspected norovirus death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French authorities have 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador Cruise Line ship &#8211; with a majority of the 1,233 passengers from Ireland or Britain &#8211; arrived in the western port of Bordeaux yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>One 90-year-old passenger had died and about 50 people have shown symptoms of norovirus, health officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Norovirus is a form of gastroenteritis, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea and is highly contagious.<\/p>\n<p>The ship, which left the Shetland Islands on 6 May, stopped in Belfast in Northern Ireland, Liverpool in Britain, and Brest in France before reaching Bordeaux, from where it was scheduled to depart for Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French authorities have confined more than 1,700 passengers and crew on a cruise ship docked in Bordeaux after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-446697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}