Cryptosporidium -- Australia
There have been 71 cases of cryptosporidiosis notified to the Public Health Unit to date this year [2017] with children under 5 the highest rates of infection. They are from the South Western Sydney Local Health District.
People who had diarrhoea are being advised not to swim in pools until at least 2 weeks because the disease spreads through person-to-person contact, drinking contaminated water, swimming in contaminated pools, handling infected animals or their manure and, in rare cases,
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2n3XQ3I
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