When health types warn about a certain activity, it’s code for, we have an outbreak but we can’t tell you just yet, so be careful.

I should have been more cynical when the health types in Wales warned this morning about infections from petting zoos. I’m still naively optimistic.

There are at least 13 people sick with cryptosporidium after a lambing event at a stately castle in Wales.

The BBC reports, those who became ill visited Erddig Hall, owned by the National Trust, over the last 12 months.

Public Health Wales said there was no ongoing risk and that it would continue to monitor the situation.

Dr Judy Hart, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, said: "Cryptosporidium is generally a mild disease.”

Unless you have the runs for six weeks.

A table of petting zoo-related outbreaks is available at:
http://bites.ksu.edu/petting-zoos-outbreaks

The table doesn’t include the ones in the U.K., which are particularly egregious, but will soon.