{"id":459276,"date":"2026-03-05T17:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459276\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:55:18","slug":"public-health-iom-managing-cryptosporidiosis-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459276\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health IOM &#8216;managing&#8217; Cryptosporidiosis outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/278867-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Pixabay<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            It causes similar symptoms to food poisoning which can last for two weeks\n        <\/p>\n<p>Public Health Isle of Man says it&#8217;s &#8216;managing&#8217; the current Cryptosporidiosis outbreak here.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s caused by a parasite and can be contracted\u00a0through contact with farm animals and sick pets or indirectly through contaminated food.<\/p>\n<p>It has similar symptoms to food poisoning and, while they tend to go by themselves, they can last for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Gemma Jones is the Public Health Registrar:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have had lots and lots of messages sent to me privately since I posted. Quite a few farmers got in touch and said, you&#8217;re doing a good thing because we don&#8217;t want the whole industry, those farms that do open up to the public to try and make ends meet, we don&#8217;t all want to be seen as really risky.&#8221; &#8211; Clare Walker, Isle of Man Goats<\/p>\n<p>Clare Walker, from Isle of Man Goats in Kirk Michael, took to social media to explain that the outbreak wasn&#8217;t related to them, after some sites published photos of goats to highlight this issue.<\/p>\n<p>She says there is still a way to visit farms safely despite the current outbreak:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    More from Isle of Man News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture credit: Pixabay It causes similar symptoms to food poisoning which can last for two weeks Public Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[96,758,59,102,755,756,757,128,50,759,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}