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HOSPITAL admissions for people contracting water-borne diseases have sky-rocketed since 2010, according to Labour analysis published today.

Cases of water borne diseases — including dysentery and Weil’s disease — have increased by nearly 60 per cent since the Tories came to power, it found.

Analysis of NHS data shows that in the last year alone 122 people were diagnosed with Weil’s disease, double the number diagnosed with the same disease in 2010.

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