It's a notifiable disease, the latest report is here where it is listed as Vibrio Cholerae. Only 2 cases in 2025. NOIDs causative agents: week 29 (week ending 21 July 2025)
Another reason for the screaming anti-immigrant brigade to wail about the downfall of Great British values.
Not much point relying on a Water Regulator to ID any disease possibilities - I doubt they even know the difference between a Turd and a Tea leaf . I gather the UK doesn't actually have a working regulator at the mo ?
There's the screaming anti-immigrant brigade. And there's the far, far left immigrant-rights brigade. And then there is the sensible majority in the middle, whose views range along a continuum from very relaxed about it all to rather concerned about the influx and its costs.
My sister had a birthday at the beginning of April. I purchased two balloons from ebay, total cost £1.35 including P&P, and she blew them up to enjoy! Now, here is the WHAAATTT? part. These balloons are still inflated. This is photo evidence she sent me today. Astonishing!
It's never been the role of the water regulator to identify diseases notifiable or not, that is the remit of Environmental Health and the Environment Agency to wit Thousands of pollution tests cancelled due to lack of staff
Agreed, it is the job of the doctors diagnosing the disease. And if the quoted doctor really is seeing lots of cases of cholera, he hasn't been doing his job reporting them.
Yes @NigelJ I do realise the water regulator isn't responsible for identifying diseases as such. In fact it would appear that the water regulator, despite it's remit, has so far failed to act as intended - hence the state of many of our rivers and other waterways. As far as "unfamiliar disease" is concerned, people travel, maybe pick up an infection without realising, return home and possibly infect others. Shouldn't come as much of a surprise to either the Environmental agencies or the medical profession given the constant movement of people throughout the world
The role of the regulator is to set the regulations that their industry operate on including moneys they can charge in some cases. They are also responsible for holding operators to account for not following the regulations if that is the case. If the operators ignore the regulator in many cases there is little the regulator can do one particularly bad example being the water industry. Ofcom has significantly more clout than Ofwat as it can do things like not grant permission or remove permission for operators to carry out particular tasks as well as impose fines.
I had cholera jabs in 1971 so I could go and visit my dad who'd gone to work in a copper mine hospital for RTZ in Mufulira, Zambia. Two jabs in those days and the first made my arm really stiff and painful for days. Not nice. Had to have yellow fever too.
When we lived in Singapore in 1963 we were having cholera jabs every 6 months. There was a pandemic. They were very painful jabs and they gave you a plaster with a loop so that nothing would touch your arm. There were open sewers going into the sea just by our flats. And we used to play there too. The only thing I got was a huge monsoon blister from an infected scratch.
When I had the cholera jab the vaccination was no worse than tetanus. I see that these days it given as an oral dose.
