Previous UK outbreaks

Merthyr Tydfil Leisure Centre, August 2009

• Final outbreak report

Northampton, Pitsford Water Treatment Works - June 2008

• Value of syndromic surveillance in monitoring a focal waterborne outbreak due to an unusual
  Cryptosporidium genotype in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, June – July 2008
  Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 33, 19 August 2010.
• DWI Press Release on an outbreak caused by a small rabbit
  http://www.dwi.gov.uk/press-media/press-releases/6%20Nov%202008%20-%20ANG%20Pitsford%20IAL.pdf

Staffordshire, Oct – Dec 2007

• Report of an outbreak associated with swimming pools.
  http://www.eurosurveillance.org/images/dynamic/EE/V13N45/art19028.pdf

North West Wales, 2005

• Report of the Outbreak Control Team (Anglesey County Council, Anglesey Local Health Board, Centre for Research into Environment and Health, Dwr Cymru, Environment Agency Wales, Gwynedd County Council, Gwynedd Local Health Board, National Public Health Service for Wales)
  http://www.anglesey.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/51/cryptosporidiumenglish.pdf

Glasgow and Edinburgh, 2002

• Drinking Water Quality: Regulator’s report to the Minister for Environment and Rural Development following the alerts in Glasgow and Edinburgh in August 2002 (pdf 102 pp)
  http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/environment/dwqrr.pdf

N. Ireland, April 2001

• Dunore water treatment works. Eastern Health and Social Services Board
  Reported in "Eurosurveillance Weekly." Issue 18. May 3rd, 2001. http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ew/2001/010503.asp#2

N. Ireland, August/September 2000

• Communicable Disease Report. Vol 10. No. 36. 8 September 2000.
  http://www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/archives/2000/cdr3600.pdf
• ENDS Report. No. 308. September 2000. pp 29- 30.
  http://www.endsreport.com
• The Lancet. Vol. 356. September 9. 2000. p919
  http://www.thelancet.com/

Glasgow, May 2000

• Outbreak linked to Mugdock Reservoir
  See: Scottish Parliament Information Centre Briefing note on the outbreak

Clitheroe, Lancashire, March 2000

• Communicable Disease Report. Vol 10. No. 13. 31 March 2000.
  http://www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/archives/2000/cdr1300.pdf

Cryptosporidiosis linked to swimming pools, Autumn 1999

• Cryptosporidiosis associated with swimming pools
  Eurosurveillance Weekly Issue 48. 25 November 1999
  http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ew/1999/991125.asp#2

West Hertfordshire & North London, 1997

• DWI Principal inspector's report
  (Local authorities involved: Hertsmere Borough Council, Borough of Watford, St. Albans District Council, Three Rivers District Council)

Northumberland 1995 (Private Water Supply)

• Reported in Epidemiology & Infection, (1996) 116. pp 303-308,
  "A mixed outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis and Campylobacter infection associated with a private water supply".

Torbay, South Devon 1992 and 1995

• Summary of the outbreak
  (Local authorities involved: South Hams DC, Torbay Council, Teignbridge DC)