Stomach flu sickens hundreds of QE2 passengers

A highly contagious form of stomach flu sickened hundreds of passengers during a voyage on the famed Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship in what US health officials called an unusually large outbreak.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported 276 passengers and 28 crew members had come down with norovirus by the time the ship docked yesterday in San Francisco for a scheduled stop, though only four passengers remained sick.