An urgent health alert has been issued to more than 1500 people who were on a Pacific cruise, after an outbreak of the meningococcal disease killed one man and left another in intensive care.

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A group of young people taken ill on a cruise ship are being treated with antibiotics after one of their fellow passengers died from meningococcal disease and at least one other was admitted to hospital.

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