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E.coli twin goes home

Alison Richards
25 Sep 2009


Twin who suffered kidney failure with his brother after an E.coli outbreak at a petting farm in Godstone, Surrey, has left hospital.

Todd Furnell, aged two, from Paddock Wood, Kent, spent more than two weeks at St Thomas', where his brother Aaron and two other children are being treated. Three new cases announced today took the number affected to 79.

Four farms have shut since the outbreak on 8 August.

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