Health bosses dismiss bug claim
Friday 27th June 2008, 9:55AM BST.
Public health chiefs today dismissed rumours there is an E.coli outbreak in the Welshpool or Oswestry areas, despite four people falling ill in recent weeks.
The National Public Health Service for Wales revealed today that it had been investigating two cases of E.coli on the Powys border near Oswestry at the same time as carrying out tests after two children who attend a nursery at Welshpool fell ill.
But a spokesman for the public health service said that tests had now shown that all four cases were isolated and not linked to each other.
The Park Lane Day Nursery, in Welshpool, closed last week when two children went down with the potentially lethal O157 strain of the bacteria last week. They have since recovered and the nursery has now reopened.
Tests have now shown that there are no links between any of the four incidents.
“There is, on average, 30 to 50 sporadic cases of E.coli in Wales each year,” the spokesman said.”There were 37 cases of E.Coli in 2006 and there are no figures for 2007 as yet.
“We get sporadic cases every year in Wales – somewhere between 30 to 50. But because of the significance of the illness, we don’t take any risks.”
E.coli can be contracted through drinking unpasteurised milk or untreated water as well as from food.
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