Tag: Outbreak

It’s not just Devon: Map reveals faeces contaminated tap water has been detected in TEN areas of England and Wales as experts warn that ongoing cryptosporidium outbreak could spread

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Could you be one of an estimated 44million drinking water supplies potentially contaminated by faeces, according to official data?

MailOnline’s fascinating map reveals which water supplies recorded breaches for bacteria commonly found in the digestive systems of animals and people in water supplies in the UK. 

It comes as 22 cases of a parasite called cryptosporidium, which most commonly enters water supplies via contamination of faeces, have been detected in Devon.

Cryptosporidium infection causes people to suffer weeks of diarrhoea

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Whooping cough hotspots are revealed in interactive map as 15-day-old girl dies in spiralling outbreak that’s killed six babies

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Another newborn baby has died from whooping cough, MailOnline can reveal today amid growing fears the outbreak could be the worst in 40 years.

Nearly 3,000 cases of pertussis, or the 100-day cough, have already been recorded in 2024 — treble levels seen across the entirety of 2023. Nottingham, parts of Wales, Leeds and Sheffield appear to be the hotspots.

Only three of 330-plus districts across England and Wales have yet to report any suspected cases this year, MailOnline analysis

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Newborn spends 10 days in a coma after contracting whooping cough amid ‘worst outbreak in 40 years’ as terrified mother reveals she was NOT offered life-saving jab in pregnancy

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A mother has urged all pregnant women to take the whooping cough jab after her newborn spent 10 days in a coma with the infection. 

Polly Deehy, from Dartford, Kent, was an otherwise healthy baby until her terrifying ordeal.

In April, at just two weeks old, she developed a rattly cough that left her struggling to breathe. 

She was rushed to hospital four days later by her parents when she suddenly turned blue, her mother Kerry Pearson revealed. 

After her

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I’ve had whooping cough and it’s terrifying. It lasts 100 days and can leave you vomiting, struggling to breathe and incontinent, says DR SALEYHA AHSAN. As five babies die… we’re due an even bigger outbreak

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That really awful hacking cough that’s now doing the rounds? It’s pertussis — whooping cough, or the 100-day cough as it’s become known — and cases are surging in the UK.

While it’s a very nasty infection if you get it as child or an adult — as I know from my own experience after ending up in A&E — for very small babies, it can be lethal.

Earlier this week, I wrote in the Mail that some paediatric colleagues

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Whooping cough outbreak that’s killed five newborn babies ‘could be biggest in 40 years’: Alarm over rapid spread of ‘100-day cough’ as experts beg pregnant women to get vaccinated

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Pregnant women were today urged to get vaccinated against whooping cough amid a worrying surge in cases that has already killed five babies. 

As a few as a quarter of expectant mothers have had the pertussis jab – offered between 16 and 32 weeks — in parts of London. 

Similarly low levels are seen in other parts of the capital and Birmingham. 

Experts today warned the outbreak could be the biggest ‘of the last 40 years’. 

Almost 3,000 cases have

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Revealed: How woke health chiefs are tiptoeing around low vaccine uptake in Birmingham. Is a failure to tell the truth fuelling measles outbreak?

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The young Muslim father who answered the door of the big detached house in the heart of Birmingham’s Sparkbrook district did not wish to give his name but was happy to speak about the measles outbreak in the city. The crucial question: did his son, who goes to the local primary school, get the MMR jab? ‘Neither I nor my wife would allow him to have it on religious grounds,’ he replied politely and without hesitation.

The measles jab contains

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A bird flu outbreak is sweeping the globe. Its long-term effects are unclear

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As I step among poop-covered rocks toward the plateau of a small island in the Galápagos, a part of me rejoices. Not only am I about to see the archipelago’s famed blue-footed boobies for the first time, but the sight of guano everywhere, and birds to make fresh batches, serves as a reminder: The ongoing avian influenza outbreak has not yet ravaged this picturesque place.

Ghostly, leafless Palo Santo trees and saltbushes sprinkle the island, surrounded by boulders in varying

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MMR vaccine pop-up clinics to be set-up in schools in bid to thwart measles outbreak as officials urge ‘Wakefield generation’ to come forward for jabs in unprecedented catch-up campaign

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Pop-up clinics dishing out MMR jabs are being set up in schools in a push to boost vaccines as cases of measles surge.

The NHS has sent letters to parents of six to 11-year-olds in England urging them to make an appointment with their GP if their child has not had both doses.

They have also issued reminders to 1million people aged 11 to 25 in London and the West Midlands, the two epicentres of the outbreak, encouraging them to

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UK declares ‘national incident’ over measles outbreak: Interactive map reveals nearly HALF of children in parts of east London have not had the MMR jab – as experts say distrust of vaccines has increased post-Covid

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Fears of an impending measles resurgence today sparked a national ‘call to action’ by health chiefs who are alarmed over vaccination rates slumping to a 10-year low.

As few as half of children have had both measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jabs in parts of London. 

Similarly low levels are also seen in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham.

Dame Jenny Harries, chief executive of the UKHSA, begged parents to check their child’s immunisation status, warning that the public had ‘forgotten what

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Australia weather: Frantic flood warning for Victoria and no end in sight to the Queensland deluge – as experts brace for terrifying outbreak of killer diseases to be unleashed

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Australia’s east coast is set to be battered by new downpours which could last for weeks – as medical experts warn the deluge could trigger deadly outbreaks of weather-related diseases.

Victorians are being told to batten down the hatches, with summer thunderstorms threatening to dump mammoth rainfall totals and cause widespread flooding on Sunday and Monday.

But weather forecasters are warning Queensland’s non-stop rain could carry on for weeks, as meteorologists dismiss the ‘misconception’ an El Nino summer means a

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