"Water firm fined £1.8m over parasite outbreak"
Sorry, but this is completely inadequate. People were seriously harmed.
And it's not the "firm" that gets fined. The firm isn't a person. It's the shareholders that get fined. That's probably you and me, via our pension funds.
We weren't the ones who let people drink contaminated water. That would be the South West Water directors.
The directors should have been fined personally. Or jailed. That would be a more meaningful deterrent.
New #ISEPpapers! The genome sequence of the gastric gland parasite, #Cryptosporidium proliferans: Monika Wiśniewska et al. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004226009727
South West Water Pleads Guilty After 2024 Cryptosporidium Contamination Sickened Hundreds in Devon
📰 Original title: Company admits supplying water unfit for humans after parasitic outbreak
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South West Water Ltd has admitted in court that it supplied drinking water unfit for human consumption during a 2024 parasitic outbreak in Brixham, Devon. The company pleaded guilty at Exeter…
MP Highlights Ongoing Distrust in Brixham's Drinking Water Following Cryptosporidium Outbreak
A year after a significant cryptosporidium outbreak contaminated the Hillhead reservoir in Devon, residents of Brixham and surrounding areas continue to lack confidence in the safety of their drinking water. The outbreak, which occurred in May 2024, led to South West Water issuing a boil notice for ... [More info]
New #ISEPpapers! New T2T assembly of #Cryptosporidium parvum IOWA II annotated with Legacy-Compatible Gene identifiers https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05364-3
#Protists #Microbes #Parasites #Genomics #Bioinformatics #Genome #Sequencing
New #ISEPpaper! Where Is Cryptosporidium Population #Genomics Going Next: The Challenge and the Promise https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-70591-5_7
"Forty years have passed since species of #Cryptosporidium, single-cellular protozoan #parasites were first recognized as significant human pathogens"
Forty years have passed since species of Cryptosporidium, single-cellular protozoan parasites were first recognized as significant human pathogens (as opportunistic pathogens in AIDS patients), and more than 10 years since these enteric food and waterborne...
In today's episode of "ignorant people trying very hard to learn the hard way why we have public works, sanitation, and modern medicine" we have the promise of #cryptosporidium outbreaks in 2025. Because #rawmilk isn't crazy enough, now we have #rawwater enthusiasts:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/us/raw-water-natural-springs.html
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