Amazon confirms outbreak of ‘Victorian disease’ at UK warehouse

Amazon is facing calls to close its Coventry warehouse after ten people tested positive for tuberculosis (Picture: Bloomberg)

Several cases of a rare disease were detected at one of Amazon’s largest UK warehouses.

The online retail giant confirmed that ten people working at its Coventry premises, which employs more than 3,000 people, had tested positive for latent tuberculosis in September.

NHS staff were called to the site this week to carry out blood tests, however no other workers were found to have the disease.