THE outbreak of cryptosporidium at a Monmouthshire farm, which resulted in 14 people testing positive for the virus, is over, according to Public Health Wales’ Outbreak Control Team.
With the first cases reported and confirmed on Thursday, March 31, all the people who had developed the illness had visited Coleg Gwent’s educational farm in Usk.
Teams from Public Health Wales and the college along with the councils in Monmouthshire and Torfaen were brought in to bring the illness under control.
School trips to the farm were postponed during April, as further cases were reported and confirmed with those who had recently come into contact with animals on the farm.
Cryptosporidium causes watery diarrhoea, stomach pains, nausea and vomiting, and can last for up to a month.
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