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They were given pills made from faeces which people had donated to a stool bank.

It generally spreads to humans through water or soil contaminated with rodent urine or faeces.

The disease is caused by the poliovirus, which spreads through contact with an infected person's faeces or droplets when they cough and sneeze.

It found rodent faeces, a live rodent, dead rodent and a rodent nest in three garages, in addition to further rodent droppings in two small external houses and three sheds.

Chief amongst them is bacteria from human faeces which he said can "increase the risk of significant infections including antibiotic resistant bacteria".