80 take legal advice over illness linked to farm visit

MORE than 80 people are taking legal advice after parents and children fell seriously ill with an animal parasite at a petting farm.

- Adam Dutton

The group were left with severe gastric illnesses and some ended up in hospital after the trip during the Easter holidays.

Parents and children as young as one were struck down with sickness and diarrhoea after going to Gannow Farm in Worcestershire, which offers cuddles with lambs and calves.

Probe

Many contracted cryptosporidium a microscopic parasite which can cause gastrointestinal illness in both humans and animals and remain seriously ill.