EXCLUSIVEThe Devon street where HALF the 居住（者）s are sick: Up to a dozen families on one road are struck 負かす／撃墜する with diarrhoea after drinking dirty tap water - as water 会社／堅い's boss says 'I'm truly sorry' for 汚染するd 麻薬を吸うs 危機
- 居住（者）s of Raddicombe の近くに were 繰り返して 保証するd water was 安全な to drink
- Source of 突発／発生 was a 損失d 空気／公表する 弁 which may have 許すd in waste?
This is the street in Brixham where more than half of 居住（者）s fell ill after drinking tap water 感染させるd with a waterborne parasite.
Families living on Raddicombe の近くに - a smart cul-de-sac of 21 homes いっそう少なく than half a mile from the Hillhead 地下組織の 貯蔵所 in Brixham, South Devon - say the 大多数 of the street has been struck 負かす／撃墜する.
にもかかわらず several 居住（者）s complaining to South West Water almost two weeks ago that their tap water had developed an unpleasant taste and was 原因（となる）ing sickness, stomach 苦痛 and diarrhoea they were 繰り返して told it was 安全な to drink.
Totnes MP Anthony Mangnall last night 発表するd the source of the 突発／発生 was a 損失d 空気／公表する 弁 which 'may have 許すd animal waste or 汚染するd groundwater to enter the 地元の 供給（する）'.
South West Water CEO Susan Davy apologised for the '苦悩' 原因（となる）d by the disruption, as she 定評のある the 会社／堅い had 'fallen 意味ありげに short' of 顧客 期待s.
But 居住（者）s on the street criticised water bosses for 存在 slow to update them on 問題／発行するs with the water.
居住（者）s on Raddicombe の近くに in Hillhead say half the street has been struck will illness after drinking 感染させるd tap water
Terry Whitehouse, 70, a retired carpenter who has lived in the street for 12 years said he and his son became ill after drinking the water, にもかかわらず 存在 繰り返して 保証するd by the water board that it was 安全な
After days of 存在 told there was nothing wrong with the water, 地元のs 報告（する）／憶測d receiving letters through their doors yesterday 警告 them to boil their water before drinking it
Retiree Janet Merritt, 67, said: 'Most people up here have been ill. I thought it was just me but we have a Facebook group and everybody was 説 the tap water doesn't taste 権利.
'I became unwell and developed 厳しい stomach cramps, diarrhoea was terrible, I 注ぐd myself a drink of water from the tap and it had a strange aftertaste so I said to my husband I'm going to let SWW know and 接触する my GP. They were very polite but I got an email 支援する 説 we've 実験（する）d the water it's 安全な. I decided to boil it anyway as I don't 信用 it.
'It's not ロケット／急騰する science if so many people are getting sick and the water doesn't taste 権利 there is a 関係.
'I'm angry because what they should have done is tell people to boil the water earlier as a 警戒 but they didn't.
'I don't feel we have been 保護するd and they could have looked out for our wellbeing.'
Of the people who spoke to MailOnline only one said they hadn't had symptoms which she credits with only drinking fizzy 瓶／封じ込めるd water.
After days of 主張するing the water was 安全な to drink, yesterday Raddicombe の近くに and other 隣人ing streets had letters 地位，任命するd through their doors 警告 them to boil tap water before drinking it.
In a 声明, SWW boss Ms Davy said: 'To those in the 影響する／感情d area and our 顧客s across the South west, I am truly sorry for the disruption and wider 苦悩 this has 原因（となる）d.
'While 出来事/事件s like these are thankfully very rare, our 顧客s 推定する／予想する a 安全な, clean and reliable source of drinking water. I know on this occasion we have fallen 意味ありげに short of what you 推定する／予想する of us.
'All of us at South West Water live and work in the 地域, just like you. It is our home and a place we love. I am sorry t his has happened.
'I 約束 you that we will not stop working until the 状況／情勢 has been 解決するd and drinking water returns to the 質 level you 推定する／予想する.'
Health 長官 Victoria Atkins said there would be 'very, very hard questions' for South West Water over the 突発／発生 of 事例／患者s of cryptosporidium, a waterborne 病気 原因（となる）d by a microscopic parasite, 確認するd in the Brixham area of Devon.
Speaking to reporters during a visit to the University of Exeter, Ms Atkins said: 'There will be very, very hard questions for South West Water to answer.?
'At the moment I think we probably need to give them the space to 行為／行う their 調査; we know that they have identified the source.
'The public will want to know how on earth that source happened, what was the chain of events that led to this, because of course we all understand the 期待 that we all have when we turn our taps on is that (we get) clean drinking water and we want to be able to 信用 it.'
She 追加するd: '突発／発生s such as this are very, very unusual in our drinking water. The 当局 are looking into this very carefully. People must please follow the advice for the time 存在 and as the 調査 proceeds, more answers will be 得るd for the public.'
More than 100 その上の people have 報告（する）／憶測d 類似の symptoms, while other 事例／患者s of diarrhoea and vomiting in 居住（者）s and 訪問者s are also under 調査.
Dr Bayad Nozad, a 顧問 in health 保護 at UKHSA, said the 政府 機関 was aware of その上の 報告（する）／憶測s of illness above their 確認するd numbers.
He said: 'Please do not 接触する 医療の services to 報告（する）／憶測 事例／患者s unless you need 緊急の 臨床の care. If your symptoms last longer than seven days, or if you experience more 厳しい symptoms such as 血 in your poo, please 接触する your doctor who may recommend taking a 見本 for 実験（する）ing.
'Those with symptoms should stay off nursery, school and work for 48hrs since the last episode of illness and anyone with diarrhoea should not go swimming for 14 days after the last episode of illness.'
Terry Whitehouse, 70, a retired carpenter who has lived in the street for 12 years said: 'There has been so many （民事の）告訴s from here, all the same.
'I phoned up earlier this week after me and my son were both ill. They said there's nothing wrong with the water sir, it's 罰金, keep on drinking it.
My son is the worst 影響する／感情d because he's into bodybuilding and has three or four litres of tap water a day.
'I said is it the water that's upsetting people and they 否定するd it then the very next day they said there were 22 事例／患者s but on the 地元の social マスコミ there were 200 or 300 事例／患者s.
Support services 経営者／支配人 Helen Irelan d fell violently sick during the Bank Holiday. Her son's fiancee also became unwell as she travelled abroad
Some 地元のs have been told that the?地下組織の lake ? which serves around 40,000 homes ? might have to be 完全に emptied to 抑制（する） the spread of the parasite
Pictured: 居住（者）s collect 瓶／封じ込めるd water at Broadsands car park in Paignton
As many as 16.000 homes and 商売／仕事s have been 影響する／感情d by the 危機
A 居住（者） from Brixham 運動s up to a 瓶／封じ込めるd water 駅／配置する. An 専門家 警告するd that more 事例／患者s of illness is the next two weeks, with the parasite still in its 'incubation period'
'Then suddenly yesterday we get a piece of paper through the door telling us to boil our drinking water.'
Helen Ireland, 49, a support services 経営者／支配人 at a care home, said she fell violently ill around the bank holiday.
Both her and her partner 接触するd SWW's 顧客 services team but were told the water was 安全な and to carry on drinking it.
She said: 'I was ill around the Bank Holiday. My son's fiancee had it too and they went abroad so she was ill on the 計画（する） and spent the whole 旅行 on the 計画（する） loo.
'Four of us have had it in our house, I think we've been drinking it for weeks.
'I'm disappointed with how long it's taken them to 警告する us when it's 引用する （疑いを）晴らす the ありふれた denominator was the water 供給（する）.
'It's 失望させるing really because I was on WhatsApp talking to South West Water and at the exact same time as they were telling me to carry on drinking the water they were 地位，任命するing on the website advice to boil the water.
'Our water hasn't tasted 権利 for weeks, it tasted stale and my stomach 苦痛s were very painful. And of course when you're ill they say drink plenty of water which was making it worse.'
Yesterday, around a dozen 先頭s from South West Water were lined up outside a pumping 駅／配置する where the 突発／発生 is believed to have been （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd earlier this week. A stream of water was flowing 負かす／撃墜する the road.
Other 地元のs were told the 地下組織の lake ? which serves around 40,000 homes ? might have to be 完全に emptied to stop the spread of the parasite and they will have to be switched の上に 代案／選択肢 sources of water.
Laura Flowerdew, South West Water's 長，指導者 顧客 and 数字表示式の Officer, said: 'We 心から apologise for the 衝撃 this is having on our 顧客s in the Brixham and Alston areas.
'保護するing the health of our 顧客s and 供給するing them with a clean, fresh drinking water 供給（する） is our number one 優先 and we will continue to work around the clock to make sure that happens as soon as possible.'?
South West Water has 辞退するd to 明らかにする／漏らす when 居住（者）s will have to stop boiling their water (Pictured:?Laura Flowerdew, the company's 長，指導者 顧客 officer)
Since the 突発／発生 was 確認するd many 居住（者）s have been 生き残るing on 瓶／封じ込めるd water
Long 列s can be seen formed on a road in Devon as people 列 up for 瓶／封じ込めるd water
居住（者）s living の近くに to the Hillhead 貯蔵所 (pictured) 近づく Brixham have been 警告するd they will have to be switched の上に 代案／選択肢 sources of water
South West Water 荷を降ろすing crates of 瓶／封じ込めるd water to 分配する to 地元のs in south Devon
People 列ing up for 瓶／封じ込めるd water に引き続いて the?突発／発生 of cryptosporidium in Devon
Around 16,000 世帯s and 商売／仕事s in the Brixham area of Devon have been told not to use their tap water for drinking without boiling and 冷静な／正味のing it first.
Paul Hunter, a professor in 薬／医学 and 感染性の 病気 専門家 at the University of East Anglia (UEA), sai d 居住（者）s should '推定する／予想する to see その上の 事例／患者s for at least 10 days to two weeks'.
The parasite could '絶対' still be in the incubation period for lots of 居住（者）s, he told BBC Breakfast this morning
Mr Hunter said: 'One of the problems when you're 調査／捜査するing 突発／発生s like this is that the incubation period can be about 10 days to two weeks.
'So often in the past when I've been 伴う／関わるd in 調査／捜査するing 突発／発生s, by the time you know you've got a problem, the problem has 解決するd itself anyway, but you can't 保証（人） that.
'Yeah, even if they have stopped all new 感染s by now, you would 推定する／予想する to see その上の 事例／患者s for at least 10 days to two weeks.'
Michael Smith, co-owner of the Venus Cafe n ear Brixham, told BBC 無線で通信する 4's Today programme they had seen a 40% 減少（する） in 商売／仕事 in the last two days and had not been 接触するd by South West Water (SWW) 'in any fashion'.
He said: 'During the week at the minute we're not 最高の busy, but we're losing four, five hundred 続けざまに猛撃するs per day the last couple of days.
'Come the 週末, 日光 next week and the week after, we're talking many thousands (of 続けざまに猛撃するs).'
Mr Smith said the cafe only 設立する out on Wednesday it was in the 影響する／感情d catchment area, and that 計画（する）s by SWW to 始める，決める up a telephone helpline for 商売／仕事s would not be very 効果的な.
He 追加するd: 'This parasite is not rare, it does occur 毎年, so they should know how to を取り引きする it.'
Aaron Richardson, a receptionist at 塀で囲む Park 小旅行するing Caravan campsite in the town, told BBC News 顧客s had 接触するd the park 明言する／公表するing it was 'too risky' to visit.
He said the park was left without fresh water until Thursday night and had also not been 接触するd by SWW.
Another 地元の, James ツバメs, said: 'We have been ill for weeks with vomiting, diarrhoea and 頭痛s. We are still feeling bad on an off.
'My understanding is it will be days or weeks before the 貯蔵所 is fully drained and in the 合間 we have to boil our water.
'It has not been 扱うd 井戸／弁護士席 by South West Water but all the staff we have dealt with have been wonderful, I think it's higher up the chain where the problems are'.
棚上げにするs usually 在庫／株d with water are empty as people panic buy in a 企て，努力，提案 to 避ける tap water
地元のs in Brixham, Boohay, Kingswear, Roseland and north-east Paignton in Devon were all told to boil water as a 警戒
It comes as 居住（者）s formed 大規模な 列s to collect 緊急 瓶／封じ込めるd water from nearby Broadsands car park.
One Brixham 居住（者） who 列d for 15 minutes to collect 瓶／封じ込めるd water said: 'I am furious this had happened. Water 率s are incredibly expensive and now we are told we can't even drink it. I think the bosses who take such 抱擁する salaries should come 負かす／撃墜する here and explain to us how things have gone so wrong.'
The illness is believed to be linked to cryptosporidium, a parasitic bug that 原因（となる）s 厳しい stomach 問題／発行するs.?
地元の 商売／仕事s have 報告（する）／憶測d 存在 影響する／感情d by not 存在 able to use tap water, 説 the 危機 is having a 重要な 衝撃 on 貿易（する）.
John Ingram of?The Bay Coffee Company in Brixham told MailOnline: 'We can't give anybody a glass of water.
'It is 影響する／感情ing 貿易（する） - a lot more people are just not coming out.
'Everyone is now worried about getting ill.' He 追加するd: 'We're trying to adapt ourselves.'?
Mr Ingram said the cafe is using 使い捨てできる cups instead of using the water to wash up.?
Those 感染させるd by the parasite 突発／発生 could be ill for up to a month,?Professor Paul Hunter told Sky News.?
Brixham 著作権侵害者 Festival happened earlier this month, with some 地元のs 説 they fell ill earlier than that?
People who …に出席するd Brixham 著作権侵害者 Festival this month might start to feel ill from drinking Devon water?
Laura Flowerdew, South West Water's 長，指導者 顧客 and 数字表示式の Officer, said: 'We 心から apologise for the 衝撃 this is having on our 顧客s in the Brixham and Alston areas.
'保護するing the health of our 顧客s and 供給するing them with a clean, fresh drinking water 供給（する） is our number one 優先 and we will continue to work around the clock to make sure that happens as soon as possible.'
一方／合間, revellers who travelled to Devon for Brixham 著作権侵害者 Festival earlier in May could get sick after drinking the water.?
地元の Meg Dew said her friends have been ill since …に出席するing the event, which took place between May 4 and May 6.????
'My 62-year-old mum called me about half an hour ago, she has a bad stomach and diarrhoea,' she said.?'My friends have been ill since the 著作権侵害者 Festival [...], I didn't even know until this morning that there was anything wrong with the water.'?
Others also 株d their 恐れるs for those who …に出席するd the 著作権侵害者 fest, with one 令状ing on Facebook:?'A lot of people were over in Brixham for 著作権侵害者 festival so people in say TQ3 might not be getting it from there water 供給（する） but caught it over that 週末.'?
Another said: 'I didn't go thankfully but I did read about a woman who said she was ill since the festival.'?
一方／合間, a school has been 軍隊d to shut and people are panic buying water from supermarkets after hundreds of people were struck 負かす／撃墜する by an illness called?cryptosporidium.?
地元のs in Brixham, Boohay, Kingswear, Roseland and north-east Paignton in Devon were all told to boil water as a 警戒 - 含むing when drinking it or using it to cook with and 小衝突 teeth - as 瓶／封じ込めるd water 駅／配置するs were 始める，決める up yesterday to 供給する clean, 安全な water for 居住（者）s to take home.
Eden Park 最初の／主要な School in Brixham told parents last night they would not be 開始 this morning after they （人命などを）奪う，主張するd South West Water did not 供給（する） them with 瓶／封じ込めるd water.
The water board 最初 （人命などを）奪う，主張するd its 治療 作品 were not to 非難する but has since backtracked - 誘発するing fury from 地元の?Tory?MP Anthony Mangnall, who said its 初期の 失敗 to 行為／法令／行動する had been 'enormously 失望させるing'.
地元のs who believe they have been struck 負かす／撃墜する by the parasite, which can be eradicated by boiling water, have told of 厳しい stomach cramps, dehydration, high fevers and '爆発性の diarrhoea' that have 手足を不自由にする／（物事を）損なうd them and their families.?
Cryptosporidium can be 設立する in the intestines and faeces of 感染させるd humans and animals. The parasite can be ingested by swimming in or drinking 汚染するd water 同様に as other sources such as 汚染するd food.?
It can lead to the 病気 cryptosporidiosis, which is believed to be 影響する／感情ing many people in Brixham, and 原因（となる）s fever, a loss of appetite, diarrhoea and vomiting. The NHS says most people 回復する within a month, if not いっそう少なく.
Twenty-two 事例／患者s of the bug, which is 原因（となる）d by a parasite, have been 確認するd in Brixham with a その上の 70 under 調査.?
Eden Park 最初の／主要な School in Brixham 確認するd they would not open today に引き続いて the 突発／発生
South West Water has 始める，決める up 瓶／封じ込めるd water stops for 居住（者）s to 選ぶ up water if they are unable to boil it at home
Lisa Allen(pictured) has been 苦しむing from the painful 影響する／感情s of cryptosporidium for nearly two weeks
Another 地元の, Mary (権利), bought 瓶／封じ込めるd water for those unable to travel to a 配当 駅／配置する four miles away by car
Dirty tap water is seen in a glass cup in Looe
Eden Park 最初の／主要な School in Brixham 発表するd yesterday evening that it would not be 開始 to pupils today に引き続いて the 突発／発生.??
The 声明 read: 'Eden Park 最初の／主要な School were only 知らせるd this afternoon? that the school was in an area where the tap water should be boiled.
'The school have taken swift 活動／戦闘 to put safety 計画（する）s in place and 接触する the appropriate 当局 about 供給するing 安全な drinking water.
'At the time of 令状ing this update (7.30pm), and にもかかわらず repeated calls to South West Water about the 緊急 of the 状況／情勢, the school has not received any 瓶／封じ込めるd water or 保証／確信s of when water will be 配達するd. To enable parents and carers to make childcare 計画（する）s for the morning, leaders have made the difficult 決定／判定勝ち（する） to の近くに the school tomorrow, Thursday 16th May.
'All Year 6 children should …に出席する the school as usual, to 完全にする their final SATs paper in the morning. They should bring their own 十分な water 瓶／封じ込める and be collected at 11:15am. The school will also 供給する 瓶／封じ込めるd water for children and staff in school tomorrow. No other children should …に出席する the school.
'A その上の update will be 供給するd tomorrow afternoon, regarding the 開始 the school on Friday 17th May. Thank you for understanding with this 速く changing 状況／情勢.'
地元のs 吊りくさび, Izzy and Lisa Allen have been 苦しむing from the painful 影響する／感情s of?cryptosporidium for nearly two weeks.?
Lisa told Good Morning Britain: 'I've just got no energy, really bad stomach cramps, a 頭痛.?
'I've met lots of 年輩の people today who weren't even aware that they shouldn't be drinking the water and they were all ill.'?
Another 地元の, Mary, bought 瓶／封じ込めるd water for those unable to travel to a 配当 駅／配置する four miles away by car.?
'There are a lot of people who are 無能にするd, 攻撃を受けやすい, 年輩の - they can't get to these places, so I thought I'd do my bit,' she said.?
Dr Lincoln Sargeant, director of public health for Torbay, BBC 無線で通信する 4's Today programme he is '楽観的な' about the 突発／発生 存在 under 支配（する）／統制する.?
He said: 'This was 報告（する）／憶測d as an 突発／発生 on Tuesday morning and by Wednesday we had a 信頼できる source that it was likely to be a 貯蔵所 serving the TQ5 postcode such as Brixham and 隣人ing areas.
'South West Water has been 調査／捜査するing and continues to 実験（する）. This is of course an 現在進行中の 状況／情勢, but we are pretty 確かな at this point with the boil water notice and 現在進行中の 調査 and remediation of water 供給（する） there that the 最初の／主要な source would have stopped.
'What we are now 焦点（を合わせる）ing on is making sure we don't have any spread from those 初期の 事例／患者s.'
South West Water 手渡すing out 緊急 rations of 瓶／封じ込めるd water to those 影響する／感情d by the Cryptosporidium 突発／発生
SWW 手渡すing out 瓶／封じ込めるs of water to those who cannot boil their tap water?
People took to social マスコミ to 明らかにする／漏らす empty 棚上げにするs in Morrisons 予定 to people panic buying water?
Dr Sargeant 追加するd that the 十分な picture on how the cryptosporidium got into the water 供給（する） will come after 調査（する）s have been 完全にするd.
'The 最終的な answers to that [why the 病気 攻撃する，衝突する this area] will come when South West Water will be able to do their 調査s.?
'Cryptosporidium 存在するs in the 環境.?いつかs when you have lots of rain it might get into the water system but usually through rigorous 実験（する）ing and water 治療 it is usually 選ぶd up.
'We are very 楽観的な [it is under 支配（する）／統制する]. Some of the 重要な 対策 such as identifying the 最初の／主要な sourc e - that is in 手渡す.'
It is thought hundreds of 居住（者）s are experiencing a 範囲 of symptoms 含むing watery diarrhoea, stomach 苦痛s, nausea or vomiting, a 穏やかな fever, and loss of appetite.
地元のs told MailOnline symptoms began の中で some around two weeks ago.?
Retiree Kathy Hudson, 67, said: 'I have been ill since last week with cramps, diarrhoea, sickness and dizziness. My daughter-in-法律 has also got ill.
'I don't want to know what is in the water I have been drinking but now they are 説 not to wash your 手渡すs, can you にわか雨? What's it going to do to you?
'I have been coming out with terrible eczema in the last couple of weeks which I 港／避難所't in ages.'
To make 事柄s worse Kathy says she hasn't been able to buy any 瓶／封じ込めるd water as panic 買い手s have stripped 棚上げにするs in the town's supermarkets.
She 追加するd: 'There is no water left in any of the shops in town.?
'I think South West Water made a mess for themselves by 説 yesterday there was nothing wrong with the water and to keep drinking it. They should've been 実験（する）ing the water before it happened.'
Karen Chapman, 65, said: 'I only 設立する out yesterday and I drink squash with tap water all day.
'I 支払う／賃金 a lot of money for water and it's going up but you can't even drink it, 加える electricity is sky high so it costs to boil the water every time you want to drink it.
'I have had no water all day because everywhere is sold out of 瓶／封じ込めるs. It reminds me of the panic buying 洗面所 rolls during Covid.'
Brixham 居住（者） Meg Dew said: 'My 62-year-old mum called me about half an hour ago, she has a bad stomach and diarrhoea.
'My friends have been ill since the 著作権侵害者 Festival (4th to 6th May), I didn't even know until this morning that there was anything wrong with the water.
'South West Water needs to sort it out, 法案s are high but for nothing.'?
A South West Water spokesperson said: '顧客s in Alston and the Hillhead area of Brixham are advised to boil their drinking water before 消費するing に引き続いて new 実験（する） results for cryptosporidium.?
'We are 問題／発行するing this notice に引き続いて small traces of the organism identified 夜通し and this morning.
'We are working with the UK Health 安全 機関 and other public health partners to 緊急に 調査／捜査する and 除去する the source.?
'We apologise for the inconvenience 原因（となる）d and will continue to keep 顧客s and 商売／仕事s updated. 瓶／封じ込めるd water 駅／配置するs will be 始める，決める up in the 影響する／感情d areas as soon as possible.'
