• 2012 December 12 13:18

  Two protest meetings held by passengers on P&O's Oriana over norovirus outbreak

  

  Passengers on board a Southamptonbased cruise ship have held two protest meetings amid claims that hundreds have been struck down with a vomiting bug, Daily Еcho reports.
  
  P&O’s Oriana has been hit by an outbreak of norovirus on a cruise around the Baltic.
  
  Travellers on board the ship, which is currently in Hamburg and is due to return to Southampton on Friday, have contacted the Daily Echo claiming there are more than 400 people who have fallen ill with sickness and diarrhoea.
  
  But P&O’s parent company, Carnival, says there have only been nine recorded cases of the stomach bug, Passenger Chris Meadows from Southampton said that voyagers were only informed there was norovirus on board after they had checked in for the cruise, which left Southampton on Tuesday, December 4.
  
   

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