Bottles of holy water taken from a sacred well in Ethiopia and brought to the UK contained a superbug strain of cholera that caused several people in Britain to be taken to hospital, a study has found.
Researchers have traced a cluster of cases of drug-resistant cholera in Britain and Germany back to a well in Ethiopia named after Saint George.
The well, known as Bermel Giorgis, is near the country’s northwestern border with Sudan and is famed for its sacred or holy water, known as tsebel in the local Amharic language. It is venerated for its purported ability to cure illness and exorcise demons. The use of the water in baptisms and for drinking has ancient roots in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, which
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