{"id":446818,"date":"2026-05-13T14:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446818\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:35:07","slug":"irish-among-1700-confined-to-cruise-ship-after-suspected-norovirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446818\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish among 1,700 confined to cruise ship after suspected norovirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">French authorities have confined more than 1,700 people \u2014 mostly British and Irish tourists \u2014 on board a cruise ship in Bordeaux following the death of one passenger and a suspected outbreak of norovirus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Carrying 1,233 passengers and about 514 crew members, the ship departed from the Shetland Islands on May 6 and stopped in Belfast, Liverpool, and Brest before arriving in Bordeaux on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">About 50 travellers have shown symptoms consistent with the virus. One person, aged 90, has died, according to reports in  and .<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Initial tests on board the liner ruled out the presence of norovirus, but further tests are under way, according to health authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Ambassador Cruise Line ship had been scheduled to continue on to Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At midday on Wednesday, it was docked in Bordeaux city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Symptoms, including vomiting and diarrhoea, were reported on May 11 while the ship was in Brest, according to health authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The victim, aged in their 90s, died before the ship reached the Breton port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French authorities have confined more than 1,700 people \u2014 mostly British and Irish tourists \u2014 on board a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-446818","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\/446818","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=446818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}