AN OXFORD museum has decided to remove its touchable specimens due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Professor Paul Smith, director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History, said: “Due to the current public health situation, the Museum of Natural History’s touchable specimens will be removed, and the museum’s cleaning regime will be enhanced.”
Last week, Robert Wilson - a former chairman of the zoological society at University College London - contacted this paper to say he had visited the museum last year and became ill shortly afterwards.
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Mr Wilson said: “I noticed the signs encouraging you to touch a bear and a fox, however there was no hand washing facilities or hand sanitisers available.
“I became ill within a matter of hours - I had a headache, a runny nose, cough and a sore throat.
Mr Wilson said he was ill for two weeks.
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