A British couple has been awarded £5,000 in compensation after their stay at a resort in Egypt was ruined by gastroenteritis symptoms. Cristian Magana Salgueiro and Mark Trevelyan fell ill just days after they arrived at the Oriental Resort in Sharm el-Sheikh, a popular Red Sea retreat for UK tourists. Mr Trevelyan was still experiencing gastric problems more than a year after the Somerset couple’s two-week getaway, while Mr Magana Salgueiro’s symptoms continued for two months following their return in July 2013. Cristian Magana Salgueiro (L) and Mark Trevelyan became ill while staying at a resort in Sharm el-Sheikh Five days in to the holiday Mr Magana Salgueiro, 30, began to experience ‘severe diarrhoea up to 12 times a day, stomach cramps and inflammation of the abdomen’.
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Cristian Magana Salgueiro and Mark Trevelyan stayed at Oriental Resort
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Mr Magana Salgueiro's symptoms continued for more than a year
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They said they witnessed birds eating from the pasta station and plates
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Traveller’s diarrhoea was diagnosed and antibiotics were prescribed
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