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Parents in South Wales urged to reinforce handwash hygiene after hepatitis A outbreak

In light of a hepatitis A outbreak in Barry, Welsh health officials are calling on parents to emphasize the importance of hand hygiene. With three households reporting cases of the illness, there are rising fears of further spread in the community. To combat this, vaccinations are being provided for individuals…

The Times of India

Parents in Wales urged to ‘be vigilant’ about hand-washing amid hepatitis A outbreak

At least three households in Barry, south Wales, identified as having contracted the liver infection

The Guardian - UK

Hepatitis A outbreak in Welsh seaside town as health officials issue urgent plea to parents

There has been a hepatitis A outbreak in a seaside town in South Wales

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Parents urged to act after hepatitis A outbreak in seaside town

Hepatitis A cases of the same strain have been identified in three separate households in Barry, South Wales.

Evening Standard

Parasitic infection outbreak linked to farm feeding sessions declared over

Cases of cryptosporidium infection began appearing in visitors to the Cowbridge Farm Shop in the Vale of Glamorgan in March.

Evening Standard

Cryptosporidium outbreak at Cowbridge farm reaches 81 cases

Public health officials urge farm visitors to wash hands after petting animals as more cases linked to animal feeding sessions emerge.

Evening Standard

Four-year-old boy sent to hospital as 74 ill after petting farm trip

Public Health Wales said the cryptosporidium outbreak had left 16 people in hospital

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Schoolgirls in Wales report problematic social media use double that of boys

Data came from the 2023 The School Health Research Network student health and wellbeing secondary school survey.

The Independent UK

Probe begins after visitors to farm petting sessions suffer parasitic infection

Public Health Wales said it was investigating 28 cases of cryptosporidium infection linked to the Cowbridge Farm Shop.

Evening Standard

Health warning after parasite outbreak linked to farm petting session

Public Health Wales is investigating 28 cases of cryptosporidium infection linked to the Cowbridge Farm Shop

The Independent UK

‘It looked like corned beef’: life inside a Welsh amputation ward – as diabetes gets worse

Patients are coping with unbearable pain and clinics fill up faster than they can be staffed. What can be done about a health crisis worsening at breathtaking speed?

The Guardian - UK

Is the UK sleepwalking into a lethal US-style opioid drugs crisis?

Warning that drugs so potent a ‘grain of sand’ dosage can be fatal could spark a US-style drug deaths crisis

The Independent UK

Tuberculosis symptoms as case of deadly Victorian disease confirmed in UK school

A case has of the potentially fatal infection has been confirmed following a routine TB screening test carried out for precaution.

Daily Record

Four children at Welsh school now being investigated for E.coli infection

An outbreak has not been declared

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Second childcare setting identified in E.coli probe

There is one confirmed case and one probably case of E.coli STEC infection being investigated

The Independent UK

Restriction on high fat, sugar and salt products to fight Welsh ‘obesity crisis’

Legislation is aimed to bring the country in line with England.

Wales Online

School closed to nursery children over confirmed E.coli cases

Parents are being asked to get stool samples to test for the infection

Wales Online

Huge fall in cancer diagnosis through the pandemic seen in new data for the first time

There is a greater chance of survival if cancer is caught early, so any delay and pause in diagnosis caused by the pandemic very likely has had a huge impact on a person's ability to make a recovery from the disease.

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Welsh teens will be given just one HPV jab as advice changes

The vaccine is one of the biggest breakthroughs at preventing one type of cancer in recent years

Wales Online

Meal deals should be regulated by the Welsh Government, survey finds

A survey done by Public Health Wales shows the public supports Government intervention to make healthy food cheaper and tax high sugar food

Wales Online

Brexit is causing more problems with illegal alcohol, tobacco and drugs, says Public Health Wales

The report raises concern that Brexit is compounding the problems of illegal drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Bristol Post

Parents told son would be only baby to die of rare illness for years - now 15 babies are infected

"Just to think that your baby has died of basically a common cold is hard to get your head around"

Bristol Post

Parents urgently warned as baby dies and eight more left in intensive care by 'usually mild' bug

The World Health Organisation has issued a warning after 15 babies - 10 in Wales and five in the South West - contracted the usually mild infection

Daily Record

Parents seek answers from doctors after baby dies from 'common cold'

Elijah Edwards died over a year ago and his parents were told he had been suffering from a rare infection.

Daily Mirror

Doctors said baby died of rare illness before parents found out tragic truth

Joann and Christian Edwards lost baby Elijah when he was just 12 days old, with doctors telling them he died of an infection so rare he was the only one in the country to die from it in years

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