Hopkins County Health Department officials are sharing an update on the ongoing Giardia outbreak in the county.

For Giardia to survive and spread, it relies on a two-stage life cycle. The first stage is the cyst. These are the hardy, protective capsules that the Giardia organism forms outside the host’s body.

El Tapatio restaurant has been temporarily closed for training and maintenance while the Hopkins County Health Department investigates a giardia outbreak, they say traces back to the restaurant.

Giardia cysts and fecal coliform bacteria were not found in any water samples collected from the distribution network on two days in January 2019.

Giardia are a one-celled creature that get inside mammals — science columnists included — and multiply by the millions.

Stage 1: The dog comes in contact with Giardia cysts in feces, contaminated water, soil, etc. and swallows the cysts. Stage 2: The cysts release trophozoites in the dog’s small intestine and ...

HEALTH officials have confirmed that low levels of the dangerous pathogens Giardia and Cryptosporidium have been detected in the upper canals of Sydney's water supply feeding Prospect Reservoir.

A boil water advisory that was in effect in the City of Havre for more than a month due to a giardia outbreak has been downgraded to a public health advisory.T ...

People should take care to use treated, boiled, or purified water for drinking and washing food, especially when camping or visiting countries where Giardia is common.

Cases of the gut disease giardiasis coincided with failures at the water treatment plant in Havre, which supplies the town of roughly 10,000 people with their drinking water.

Wet weather blamed for parasites in Sydney’s drinking water TWO water bugs that forced Sydneysiders to boil their tap water almost two decades ago has again been detected in catchment and ...

Toxoplasma gondii can be transmitted via the fecal–oral route through consuming food or water contaminated with oocysts or via ingestion or consumption of tissue cysts in raw or undercooked meat ...