Cryptosporidium -- United States
Animals at a Middletown farm are being quarantined after 3 people got sick, Rhode Island health officials announced [Mon 16 Apr 2018].
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management [DEM] said one child and 2 adults came down with cryptosporidiosis after having contact with goats during "pet and cuddle" events at Simmons Farm on West Main Road on [25 and 31 Mar 2018].
"Cryptosporidiosis lives in the gut of infected humans or animals. It is spread through contact with the feces
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5755399&promed&0
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