The Balmoral set sail from
Southampton on 16 April and is due to return home on May 20 but British cruise ship has docked in the US with
more than two-hundred-and-fifty passengers on board sick with noro-virus.
The Balmoral was carrying
919 mainly British passengers on a five-week "Old England to New
England" cruise from the UK to the US.
It docked in Portland,
Maine, on Sunday and passengers suffering the stomach virus were quarantined in
their cabins.
Eight members of the
520-strong crew were also reportedly sick with norovirus.
Its symptoms include
nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
The symptoms appear one to
two days after you become infected and usually last for up to three days.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said the ship owners, Fred Olsen Cruises, had increased
cleaning and disinfection procedures on board.
It has now left Portland
and is heading for Saint John, in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
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