Farmers who handle livestock can also be at risk, as the infection can be caught from cows, goats and sheep – particularly lambs. Once they are swallowed, the Cryptosporidium shells break open ...

He homed in on a drug that can cure Cryptosporidium infections in livestock but has yielded mixed results in reptiles. In December and January, Pebbles gobbled down seven doses of the drug ...

The Department of Health is warning people who have had diarrhoea not to enter any swimming pool, water spray park or other aquatic facility for at ...

Farmers have been urged to check their livestock for cryptosporidiosis and carry out routine testing and vaccination to keep ...

Contaminated food is the most common source of infection while contaminated ... Giardia duodenalis, Cryptosporidium, diarrhoeagenic E. coli, Vibrio cholerae, Hepatitis A and E viruses, and Shigella.

Infection occurs when calves ingest the micro-organism cryptosporidium parvum – a type of parasitic protozoan. The parasite produces vast numbers of encysted eggs (oocysts), which are shed in ...