Ynet - Virus outbreak on another cruise ship: 90-year-old passenger dies, 1,700 others in quarantine

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Need to avoid cruise for now. Too many people confined. Any one fella kena, whole ship in danger and lockdown on the ship.
 
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France locks down 1,700 people on cruise ship after 92-year-old dies​

About 50 people have shown symptoms of stomach issues, but initial tests ruled out an outbreak of norovirus, a highly contagious form of gastroenteritis.
France locks down 1,700 people on cruise ship after 92-year-old dies

A view of the MS Ambition cruise ship operated by Ambassador Cruise Line. (Photo: Ambassador Cruise Line)

BORDEAUX: French authorities on Wednesday (May 13) confined more than 1,700 passengers and crew on a British cruise ship docked in Bordeaux after an elderly passenger died, said officials, who played down any links to the hantavirus scare.

Dozens also suffered from upset stomachs aboard the Ambition - most of whose 1,233 passengers are from Britain or Ireland - which arrived in the western port of Bordeaux on Tuesday, with 514 Indian crew members also on board.

But health officials said there was no connection with the hantavirus outbreak, suspected of killing three passengers on the Dutch MV Hondius cruise ship that set sail from Argentina.

One 92-year-old passenger on the Ambition, run by the Ambassador Cruise Line company, had died and about 50 people have shown symptoms of stomach issues, the officials said.

Initial tests ruled out an outbreak of norovirus, a highly contagious form of gastroenteritis which causes vomiting and diarrhoea, but secondary tests were still underway, they added.

Food poisoning had not been excluded.

Passengers on board the Ambition showed peak symptoms on Monday when the ship was docked in Brest, the officials said. The 92-year-old died before they arrived at the port in France's northwestern Brittany region.

The ship, which left the Shetland Islands north of Scotland on May 6, stopped in Belfast in Northern Ireland and Liverpool in England before reaching Bordeaux, from where it was scheduled to depart for Spain.

No security measures were in place around the ship as it was docked in Bordeaux on Wednesday, an AFP reporter said. Passengers were taking pictures of the French city from the deck.

Source: AFP/ec/rk

 
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Cannot take cruise ship lah. Once out in the open sea and a disease strikes there's no way to run and hide

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TrueB1ue said:
https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/r1c9ewgkme

Virus outbreak on another cruise ship: 90-year-old passenger dies, 1,700 others in quarantine

Ambassador Cruise Line's ship Ambition has docked in Boudreaux but no one on board can disembark; experts suspect it has no connection with the hantavirus outbreak that killed three on a Dutch cruise ship last week, and believe it is norovirus
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Who still dare to go on cruises?
 
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cyke69sg said:
Go to places that are quiet. Less people. Nature. Fresh air.
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very few of that left now.i still rembr the time when orchard central first opened how peaceful it was.now all the seebee kia with negative discipline polluting the place
 
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