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sewage-related parasitic infection South West

River Severn, Beachley, Gloucestershire

A lifeboat volunteer and training manager contracted giardiasis, a parasitic infection linked to sewage, after spending two hours in the River Severn during a training exercise in October 2020. He spent over three weeks unwell, including multiple hospital admissions, and investigators determined an 80% probability the infection came from human sewage contamination in the river.

Outcome: casualty hospitalised for three-and-a-half weeks, recovered

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