Parasite outbreak in baby salad leaves left 40 people ill

The outbreak was likely caused by the consumption by the people concerned of baby salad leaves that were supplied in salad leaf boxes to a number of restaurants. File picture: Chris Bellew /Fennell Photography 

A diarrhoea-causing parasite left 40 people ill, including 14 who required hospitalisation in the south Dublin and Wicklow area last July.

The youngest impacted by the food-borne outbreak of cryptosporidium was three and the oldest aged 74.