Summary
THE owner of a petting farm says that calls for children to be banned from touching animals after an outbreak of E coli would harm their development.
A Department of Health committee was yesterday looking into the possibility of changing guidelines on whether children under five should have contact with animals at petting farms.See the full content of this document
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'Don't Stop Children Touching Farm Animals'
And parents were warned to "think very hard" about letting youngsters touch them after more people fell ill following the outbreak.
Yesterday, microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington said that yo...See the full content of this document
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