No advance warning in place for cryptosporidium outbreak - (Galaway City Tribune)
April 7, 2008 – 9:13 pmhttp://www.galwaynews.ie/3330-no-advance-warning-place-cryptosporidium-outbreak
A study of the emergency department at University Hospital Galway has shown there was no mechanism in place to detect trends that could have warned about the cryptosporidium outbreak that occurred in Galway in March last year.
The study published by the Irish Health Journal shows that despite 185 patients being diagnosed with atypical gastroenteritis in the run up to the outbreak, an imminent public health epidemic was not foreseen
It’s now emerged that 3 quarters of those affected with gastroenteritis, 5 weeks before the outbreak of cryptosporidium were living in the affected area.
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