More Than 1,700 Confined on Bordeaux Cruise Ship After Suspected Norovirus Death

BORDEAUX: French authorities on Wednesday 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.

The Ambassador Cruise Line ship -- with a majority of the 1,233 passengers from Britain or Ireland -- arrived in the western port of Bordeaux on Tuesday. One 90-year-old passenger had died and about 50 people have shown symptoms of norovirus, health officials said.