Hundreds of people who drank in a country pub at any time in the past 13 years are being urged to be tested for TB after a woman died.
Grandmother Margaret Pegler, 64, was killed and at least 29 other people have been infected in her village.
Mrs Pegler’s family say she wasn’t a regular at the pub, but may have eaten there “a few times” over the years.
She fell ill last June after suffering a persistent cough and night sweats, but doctors failed to immediately identify her symptoms as tuberculosis.
Mrs Pegler was diagnosed in September, but her condition worsened and she died five days later.
Her daughter Joanna, 43, said: “She should never have died ever – not from that. We have put a complaint in to the hospital. We want answers from it all.”
Health chiefs are now carrying out up to 700 screenings.
Public Health Wales wrote to 80 villagers asking them to attend screenings – but also urged customers and employees of the Joiners Arms, in Llwynhendy, South West Wales, between 2005 and 2018 to get checked.
They also said adults who were in the same room as anyone with TB for more than eight hours should be tested.
Dr Brendan Mason, of Public Health Wales, said: “Our aim is to ensure all affected individuals proceed to treatment as soon as possible, so we can halt any further spread of the disease and bring the outbreak under control.”
