{"id":446959,"date":"2026-05-13T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446959\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:23:08","slug":"irish-among-1700-confined-to-cruise-ship-in-france-after-suspected-norovirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446959\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish among 1,700 confined to cruise ship in France after suspected norovirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/lifestyle\/parenting\/arid-40698659.html\">norovirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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  Le Monde and  AFP.<\/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=\"\">Any link with the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/hantavirus_topic-5332206.html\">hantavirus<\/a> outbreak that led to the deaths of three passengers on board the MV Hondius has been ruled out.<\/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, with no security measures in place on land.<\/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":446960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5658,188479,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-446959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-hantavirus","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\/446959","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=446959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}