Symptoms include profuse watery diarrhoea, stomach pains, nausea or vomiting, low-grade fever and loss of appetite, and usually last between one to two weeks.
A suspected outbreak of cryptosporidium is believed to be affecting Brixham. Have you fallen ill with cryptosporidium? Email [email protected] West Water has urged people to boil their tap water after hundreds were struck down with diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach pains in a seaside town in Devon.
Other symptoms include low-grade fever and a loss of appetite. All symptoms usually last one to two weeks. 'We are issuing this as a precaution following small traces of the organism identified overnight and this morning. We are working with public health partners to urgently investigate the source. What is cryptosporidium? Cryptosporidium, which can cause vomiting, stomach pains and a fever, can survive in swimming pools for up to a week.
'They wouldn't expect this many cases over a whole year for all of Devon and Cornwall so something is amiss. SWW asked if I had been in the sea or a river but I have not. I also think the water tastes funny and it has been leaving a horrid taste in my mouth.' 'My husband has it too. My son is doing his GCSEs and I'm worried about what happens if he gets poorly too.'
Community Facebook page Brixham Fish Town has been inundated with posts and comments from residents saying they have come down with symptoms 'I originally thought it was noravirus but as it went on for so long, I had to contact the doctors. I sent off a stool sample which came back as cryptosporidium which I had never heard off until I saw the post on Brixham Fish Town.
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