A MUM claims her four-year-old daughter dropped to 'the weight of a baby' after a nasty parasitic infection caught at a kid's petting farm left her horribly ill. Little Georgia Powell suffered with vomiting and diarrhoea for two weeks after visiting Gannow Farm in Worcestershire over the Easter holidays . 5 Georgia Powell, 4, shed half her body weight after falling ill with vomiting and diarrhoea following a visit to Gannow Farm Credit: Michelle Powell 5 Cryptosporidium is a microscopic parasite that can an unpleasant – and sometimes dangerous – illness called cryptosporidiosis Credit: Getty Mum Michelle, 41, said her four-year-old daughter got so ill, she had to be put back in nappies.
She claimed the tot lost half of her body weight in the process. Georgia is thought to have been infected with cryptosporidium - a microscopic parasite that can cause an infection called cryptosporidiosis. She's one of several children and parents left with severe gastric sickness following a visit to Gannow Farm in March this year.
The attraction - which offers cuddles with lambs and calves - is temporarily closed, after it emerged last month that 20 visitors had contacted public health lawyers asking them to investigate the matter following sickness. The number of people seeking legal action has now risen to 83, Irwin Mitchell - the firm supporting families - said. One of those people is Michelle, who told the BBC that Georgia had fallen ill six days after the family visited Gannow Farm .
