Technology predicted to help protect people drinking water from private sources including groundwater wells
Dr Louise O’Connor and Dr Zina Alfahl of the University of Galway testing water at Salthill, Galway, using a rapid test for STEC, the most dangerous form of E. coli found in water. Photograph: Martina Regan
Ireland regularly had the highest incidence rates of the pathogen shiga toxigenic escherichia coli – known as STEC – in Europe, while one in 20 small private water supplies and private group schemes failed to meet E.coliSTEC produces the harmful shiga toxin which if ingested by humans can cause severe stomach illnesses and in some cases life-threatening complications, especially in children under five, older people and immunocompromised individuals.
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