Cholera case reported to Notts health experts

WATER-BORNE ILLNESS WAS CONTRACTED ABROAD

- By JOSEPH CONNOLLY Local democracy reporter

A CASE of the rare waterborne disease cholera was confirmed in Nottinghamshire in the last 10 months, an Environmental Health officer told a Mansfield District Council meeting this week.

Cholera, which is typically caught from drinking unsanitary water, was eradicated in Britain in the 1800s as sanitary conditions were improved. But it can still be found in certain third-world countries.

The case in Mansfield was brought to the region by a traveller who had contracted it abroad, environment and community protection manager Sally Dilks said.