Gastroenteritis in holidaymakers returning from Andorra, January-February 2002

On 27 January 2002 an aeroplane carrying ill holidaymakers, most of them with gastrointestinal symptoms, landed in Dublin, Ireland. The flight, originating from Toulouse, carried holidaymakers who had spent the week of 20-27 January on a skiing holiday in Andorra. A second flight from Toulouse, also carrying holidaymakers returning from Andorra, landed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, two hours after the Dublin flight. Many of the passengers on board this flight were also ill.