List of cryptosporidiosis outbreaks

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Cryptosporidiosis is a parasitic disease caused by Cryptosporidium . It can be spread by water or contact with contaminated surfaces. [1]

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Canada

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
1996 Cranbrook 2,000 [2]
1996 Kelowna 10,000–15,000 [2]

Italy

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
1995 Emilia-Romagna 294Water supply [3]
2019 Tuscan–Emilian Apennines 75Water supply [4]

New Zealand

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
1995 Tauranga 1School [5]
1997 Waikato 170 [5]
1997TaurangaUnknown [6]
2003 Masterton "Few"Water supply [5]
2010 Auckland 7Swimming pool [7]
2010 Christchurch 17Unknown [7]
2013 Hawke's Bay 22Swimming pool [7]
2013 Waikato 5Unknown [7]
2013 Wellington 5Unknown [7]
2013 Taranaki 3Unknown [7]
2015Auckland6Raw milk [7]
2017Auckland9Childcare centre [7]
2018 Kapiti Coast 11Water playground [8]
2021Taranaki6Raw milk [7]
2021Taranaki4Raw milk [7]
2023 Queenstown 72Unknown Queenstown cryptosporidiosis outbreak [9]

Sweden

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
2010 Östersund 27,000Water supply [10] [11]
2011 Skellefteå 20,000Water supply [12]
2015 Gothenburg 83Food [13]

United Kingdom

England

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
1989 Oxfordshire 500 Farmoor Reservoir [14] [15]
1995 Torbay 508 [16] [17] [18]
2008 Northamptonshire 22 Pitsford Reservoir [19]
2013 Gloucestershire 6Farm [20]
2013 Kingston upon Hull 18Swimming pool [21]
2016 Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire 223Swimming pool [22]
2016 Gateshead 7Swimming pool [23]
2024 Brixham 100Water supply Devon cryptosporidiosis outbreak [24]

Northern Ireland

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
2000 Northern Ireland 129 [25]
2000 Northern Ireland 117 [25]
2001 Northern Ireland 275Water supply [26]

Scotland

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
2000 Glasgow 90 Loch Katrine [27]
2002 Aberdeen 140 River Dee [27]
2002 Perth 8 Perth Leisure Pool [28]
2010 Cumbernauld 16Swimming pool [29]

Wales

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
2005 Gwynedd 231 Llyn Cwellyn [30] [31]
2012 Cwmbran 8Farm [32]
2012 Newport 20Swimming pool [33]

United States

Florida

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
2019 Pasco County 10 [34]

Georgia

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
1987 Carroll County 13,000 1987 Carroll County cryptosporidiosis outbreak [35]

Wisconsin

YearLocationNumber of casesOutbreak sourceLink to articleReferences
1993 Milwaukee 403,000 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak [36]

References

  1. ↑ "General Information for the Public | Cryptosporidium | Parasites | CDC". www.cdc.gov. 26 October 2021. Archived from the original on 28 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Cryptosporidium". CBC News. 23 June 2004. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  3. ↑ Pignata, Cristina; Bonetta, Silvia; Bonetta, Sara; Cacciò, Simone M.; Sannella, Anna R.; Gilli, Giorgio; Carraro, Elisabetta (January 2019). "Cryptosporidium Oocyst Contamination in Drinking Water: A Case Study in Italy". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health . 16 (11): 2055. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16112055 . ISSN   1660-4601. PMC   6604028 . PMID   31185673.
  4. ↑ Franceschelli, Armando; Bonadonna, Lucia; Cacciò, Simone M.; Sannella, Anna Rosa; Cintori, Christian; Gargiulo, Raffaele; Coccia, Anna Maria; Paradiso, Rosa; Iaconelli, Marcello; Briancesco, Rossella; Tripodi, Alberto (1 September 2022). "An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis associated with drinking water in north-eastern Italy, August 2019: microbiological and environmental investigations". Eurosurveillance . 27 (35): 2200038. doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.35.2200038. ISSN   1560-7917. PMC   9438396 . PMID   36052722.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  5. 1 2 3 "Appendix 2: Outbreaks of Water-borne Disease in New Zealand". Ministry for the Environment. 1 March 2007. Archived from the original on 25 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  6. ↑ Estimation of the burden of water-borne disease in New Zealand: preliminary report. New Zealand Ministry of Health (published February 2007). November 2006. ISBN   978-0-478-30768-9. Archived from the original on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Garcia-R, Juan C.; Hayman, David T. S. (20 March 2023). "A review and analysis of cryptosporidiosis outbreaks in New Zealand". Parasitology. 150 (7): 606–611. doi:10.1017/S0031182023000288. ISSN   0031-1820. PMC   10260297 . PMID   36938817.
  8. ↑ "Bug spread through Wellington water playground". RNZ . 16 February 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  9. ↑ "Queenstown cryptosporidium outbreak: Four more weeks of boiling water". RNZ . 14 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  10. ↑ "Cryptosporidium (Östersund 2010–2011)". Public Health Agency of Sweden (in Swedish). 1 July 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  11. ↑ Widerström, Micael; Schönning, Caroline; Lilja, Mikael; Lebbad, Marianne; Ljung, Thomas; Allestam, Görel; Ferm, Martin; Björkholm, Britta; Hansen, Anette; Hiltula, Jari; Långmark, Jonas; Löfdahl, Margareta; Omberg, Maria; Reuterwall, Christina; Samuelsson, Eva (April 2014). "Large Outbreak of Cryptosporidium hominis Infection Transmitted through the Public Water Supply, Sweden". Emerging Infectious Diseases . 20 (244): 581–589. doi:10.3201/eid2004.121415. PMC   3966397 . PMID   24655474 . Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  12. ↑ "Cryptosporidium (Skellefteå, april 2011)". Public Health Agency of Sweden (in Swedish). 1 July 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  13. ↑ "Cryptosporidium (Göteborg 2015)". Public Health Agency of Sweden (in Swedish). 2 December 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  14. ↑ "Pressure" . Banbury Guardian . 9 March 1989. Retrieved 19 May 2024– via British Newspaper Archive. Thames Water have announced an independent inquiry into the water scare in Oxfordshire which led to thousands of households being told to boil their drinking water. The warning, which is not yet lifted, came after the diarrhoea-linked bug, Cryptosporidium, was found in filters at the giant Farmoor water works outside Oxford.
  15. ↑ "Water bosses rule out compensation over bug" . Reading Evening Post . 18 April 1989. Retrieved 19 May 2024. The bug, Cryptosporidium, laid low more than 500 people in January with diarrhoea and illness which can kill those with weak immune systems.
  16. ↑ "Hotels' fury as illness hits South Devon" . Herald Express. 15 August 1995. Retrieved 17 May 2024– via British Newspaper Archive. South West Water confirmed a 'boil-your-water' alert to 200,000 South Devon householders after a Cryptosporidium bug was found to be the cause of an outbreak of stomach upsets.
  17. ↑ "As bug toll nears 100 mark expert says it's hard to kill" . Herald Express. 17 August 1995. Retrieved 17 May 2024– via British Newspaper Archive. The number of confirmed cases of stomach upsets caused by the water bug Cryptosporidium almost doubled overnight with today's total now standing at 91.
  18. ↑ "Water bug: 'We blame the works'" . 19 September 1995 – via British Newspaper Archive. The number of officially recorded victims of the bug topped 508 today.
  19. ↑ "Water bug infections rise to 22". BBC News . 29 July 2008. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  20. ↑ "Cotswold Farm Park bosses say it is safe amid sickness probe". BBC News . 7 May 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  21. ↑ "Hull East Park's pool closed after sickness outbreak". BBC News . 7 August 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  22. ↑ "Diarrhoea bug outbreak widens to hundreds of cases in the South West". BBC News . 25 August 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  23. ↑ Meechan, Simon (25 October 2016). "Cryptosporidiosis closes to Gateshead pools - but what is it?". Chronicle Live. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  24. ↑ "Cryptosporidium infections rise as South West Water fail to fix Devon water contamination issue". ITV News . 30 May 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  25. 1 2 Glaberman, Scott; Moore, John E.; Lowery, Colm J.; Chalmers, Rachel M.; Sulaiman, Irshad; Elwin, Kristin; Rooney, Paul J.; Millar, Beverley C.; Dooley, James S. G.; Lal, Altaf A.; Xiao, Lihua (June 2002). "Three Drinking-Water–Associated Cryptosporidiosis Outbreaks, Northern Ireland - Volume 8, Number 6—June 2002 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC". Emerging Infectious Diseases . 8 (6): 631–633. doi:10.3201/eid0806.010368. PMC   2738494 . PMID   12023922 . Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  26. ↑ "Water bug outbreak 'in decline'". BBC News . 17 May 2001. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  27. 1 2 Pollock, Kevin G. J.; Young, David; Smith, Huw V.; Ramsay, Colin N. (January 2008). "Cryptosporidiosis and Filtration of Water from Loch Lomond, Scotland". Emerging Infectious Diseases . 14 (157): 115–120. doi:10.3201/eid1401.070562. PMC   2600157 . PMID   18258090 . Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  28. ↑ "Water bug pool given 'all clear'". BBC News . 26 August 2002. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  29. ↑ "Safety Procedures Called Into Question At Glasgow Nursery". Irwin Mitchell. 6 July 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  30. ↑ "Outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in North West Wales, 2005" (PDF). Public Health Wales . 28 November 2006. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  31. ↑ "Water company prosecuted over bug". BBC News . 21 June 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  32. ↑ "Cryptosporidium outbreak on Torfaen farm makes four more people ill". BBC News . 26 April 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
  33. ↑ "Newport swimming pool cryptosporidiosis bug outbreak over". BBC News . 5 October 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  34. ↑ "Pasco County, FL issues 'crypto' warning". Outbreak News Today. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  35. ↑ Fackelmann, K. A. (3 June 1989). "Scientists Nab Water-Polluting Parasite". Science News . Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  36. ↑ Corso, Phaedra S.; Kramer, Michael H.; Blair, Kathleen A.; Addiss, David G.; Davis, Jeffrey P.; Haddix, Anne C. (2003). "Costs of Illness in the 1993 WaterborneCryptosporidium Outbreak, Milwaukee, Wisconsin". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 9 (4): 426–431. doi:10.3201/eid0904.020417. PMC   2957981 . PMID   12702221.
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