"The government acted very quickly, " recalls Whittingham, whose own farm escaped infection, despite being close to the centre of the outbreak.

CNN: Farmers haunted by 1967 virus epidemic

While in the rest of the country little has been said in the official press about the cholera, in Granma province, the site of the outbreak, residents are now shown a nightly program on how to prevent infection.

CNN: Cuban doctors battle to control cholera outbreak

The outbreak incidentally revealed that, whereas 100, 000 cells of Salmonella were once considered necessary to trigger infection, as few as ten cells might do the job.

ECONOMIST: Food safety

Food hygiene standards have been the subject of a number of other FoI requests to Bridgend council in recent months following the E.coli poisoning outbreak in south Wales which led to the death of a five-year-old boy and the infection of 157 other people.

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