More than 1,700 passengers and crew are trapped aboard a cruise ship docked in France after a 90-year-old passenger died from suspected norovirus — just days after a separate virus killed three and sickened multiple others on a different cruise.
Passengers and crew traveling on the Ambassador Cruise Line are being forced to remain on the vessel after arriving in Bordeaux on Tuesday, French authorities said.
The quarantine comes after an elderly passenger died after roughly 50 people started showing symptoms of norovirus — a highly contagious stomach virus that causes diarrhea and vomiting.
The ship, which is carrying mostly British and Irish travelers, had set off from the Shetland Islands on May 6.
The outbreak came just days after passengers stranded on the MV Hondius were finally evacuated after a rare outbreak of hantavirus killed three people and sickened multiple others.
