80 Passengers Still Suffering From Illness On Cruise Liner Gales Halt Bid to Get Medics On Board

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THE cruise ship struck by a suspected outbreak of the norovirus vomiting bug is due at Tobermory on Mull today with about 80 people still suffering from the bug.

The Balmoral lay outside Portree Bay on Skye for most of yesterday without any of its 1280 passengers disembarking as gale- force winds lashing the islands were too fierce to allow any tenders to approach the 44,000 tonne vessel and plans to get a medical team on board had to be abandoned.

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80 Passengers Still Suffering From Illness On Cruise Liner Gales Halt Bid to Get Medics On Board

Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, which owns the Balmoral, issued a statement saying that those affected had demonstrated symptoms of a viral infe...

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