A 12-year-old girl has died and seven other children have been taken to hospital in an outbreak of severe food poisoning centred around a northern French town. Symptoms began to emerge on 12 June in and around Saint-Quentin, south of Lille, with the children rushed to hospital over the following days. The cause of the...
The parasite outbreak, which contaminated the local water supply, led to hospitalisations and more than 100 reported cases of illness, including symptoms such as diarrhoea. Pennon said about 800 staff and supply chain partners worked intensively over eight weeks to restore safe drinking water to the affected communities. In addition to the outbreak costs, the...
Elliot Ball BBC News, South West Victoria Graham BBC Spotlight presenter BBC Susan Davy said she had sleepless nights during Brixham’s cryptosporidium outbreak The boss of South West Water (SWW) has said she unreservedly apologises for a parasite outbreak in south Devon a year ago. In an interview with the BBC, Pennon Group CEO Susan...
Jonathan Morris & Scott Bingham BBC News, South West BBC Bottled water was handed out to residents by South West Water People in the south Devon fishing town of Brixham remember 15 May 2024 for all the wrong reasons. That was date the UK Health Security Agency confirmed the parasite cryptosporidium was present in tap...
Madeline Halpert BBC News Reporting fromWestern Texas Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr traveled to be with the Mennonite community after another child died of measles On an unusually crisp April day in a rural Texas town, dozens of Mennonite community members gathered alongside the nation’s top health official, Robert F...
A second child has died from the highly contagious measles virus as an outbreak in western Texas continues to grow. The school-aged child was not vaccinated, had no underlying health conditions and was in hospital suffering complications from measles, Aaron Davis, the vice president of UMC Health System, told the BBC. Health Secretary Robert F...
PA People were given bottled water to help avoid using tap water A parasite outbreak in Devon contributed to a nearly £40m bill for South West Water owner Pennon, the company has said. The May 2024 outbreak left some people in hospital after cryptosporidium, which causes sickness and diarrhoea, contaminated the water supply in the...