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Nearly 1.5 million holiday-makers book cruises each year and travel to destinations all around the globe. Hoping for the holiday of a lifetime, most of those people arrive home safe and sound. Some, however, do not. Norovirus or Norwalk Norovirus or Norwalk is a gastro-intestinal illness which is highly contagious and affects an extraordinarily-high number of cruise ship passengers. The disease spreads quickly through groups of passengers in a relatively confined space and can have fatal results. Death on board the Marco Polo Cruise Ship A 74 year old passenger onboard the Marco Polo Cruise Ship died recently after suffering a heart attack. He was said to be vomiting violently the night before he died and over 150 other passengers were suffering symptoms of vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach cramps.Four passengers had to be removed from the ship and treated for suspected Norovirus in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, panic disorder after the ship cut-short its cruise, and docked at Invergordon, Scotland. The operators of the ship, Transocean Tours, said the mans death was unrelated to the Norovirus outbreak, but this is yet to be confirmed. Lack of information about Norovirus Passengers have complained about the lack of information they received from the crew onboard the Marco Polo after the outbreak of Norovirus and feel the spread of the illness could have been halted. One passenger commented: ?We were told nothing, and only realised the extent of the illness on board ship by talking to other passengers. Obviously we were in close contact with other passengers, which only served to spread the illness more quickly.? One passenger had been on a previous Marco Polo Cruise which also resulted in passengers contracting Norovirus. She said: ?I am astounded at Norovirus breaking out for a second consecutive time on the Marco Polo Cruise Ship.