Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Are Farm Animal Attractions and Petting Zoos too dangerous for children? Part 2    So just over a year on from my original blog on this topic, the Petting Farm at the centre of the outbreak of E.coli 0157 has admitted liability for the incident¹ ....View more

Monday, February 15, 2010 Are Farm Animal Attractions and Petting Zoos too dangerous for young children?    Following a serious outbreak of E.coli 0157 in the UK, during the latter part of 2009 which saw a number of children hospitalised and several farm attractions closed, Professor Hugh Pennington, Emeritus professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen University, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that parents should "think hard" before letting children, particularly those under the age of 5, touch animals at petting farms....View more

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