Posted on 05/18/2018 8:30:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
. In fact, the water can be so contaminated that it’s been making thousands of Americans sick.
The CDC sorted through nearly 500 outbreaks linked to pools, spas, and waterparks that made more than 27,200 people sick and killed eight people between 2000 and 2014. Roughly one-third of those outbreaks were traced back to hotels, motels, inns, and lodges, according to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. That means that the managers at vacation spots still have to do better at keeping their aquatic facilities clean. And the public can help by remembering one simple rule, the CDC says: “Don’t swim or let your kids swim if sick with diarrhea.”
Outbreaks occur when these bugs escape the killing powers of chemical disinfectants. Chlorine and bromine are usually enough to kill Legionella and Pseudomonas, but these bugs can survive in dirty pools by forming a tough layer of gooey sludge known as a biofilm — especially when the disinfectants aren’t strong enough. The hardest to kill, though, is Cryptosporidium. At the concentrations of chlorine the CDC recommends, most bugs die in minutes, but Crypto can survive for more than seven days, the CDC says.
The best way to stop Crypto is to prevent contamination in the first place, which means stopping people with diarrhea from getting into the water. Local public health departments as well as the CDC have been working to raise awareness, and the good news is that it seems to be working: while outbreaks of Cryptosporidium climbed between 2000 and 2007, they plateaued after that. Skin rashes caused by Pseudomonas also seem to be dropping.
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This should be huge news. All pools should be closed shut until we can eliminate diarrhea!!
Pfffwaap...
The alternative is to eliminate stupid people who think it's OK to poop in pools, but that will never happen when most people are educated in the failed public school systems.
Public Pool = Bathing from your neighbors toilet!
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By Kate Samuelson May 19, 2017
There has been a rise in the number of people catching diarrhea from dirty swimming pool water, according to new statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Twice as many people contracted cryptosporidiosis — a type of gastrointestinal illness caused by a parasite that can lead to watery diarrhea that lasts for up to three weeks — in 2016 compared to 2014. Since 2004, the number of annual cryptosporidiosis incidents has tripled in the U.S.
A person can get ill from cryptosporidiosis after being exposed to contaminated swimming pool water, water in water parks, drinking water and food, as well as from contact with people or animals who have been infected.
The CDC said that at least 32 aquatic facility–associated cryptosporidiosis outbreaks occurred in 2016. As well as diarrhea, symptoms of cryptosporidiosis may include stomach cramps, dehydration, nausea and vomiting.
The public is advised not to swim or let their children swim if they have been sick with diarrhea. Health care providers have also been advised to instruct cryptosporidiosis patients not to go back into the water until they have been diarrhea-free for two weeks.
As even a single mouthful of contaminated water can lead to cryptosporidiosis, Michele Hlavsa, chief of the CDC’s Healthy Swimming Program, has recommended that parents encourage their children not to swallow water when swimming, as well as to avoid buying pool toys that may encourage swallowing, such as cups.
“Take kids on bathroom breaks every hour, and check diapers in a diaper-changing area and not right next to the pool,” Hlavsa told CNN. “We all share the water we swim in, but we don’t want to share germs, pee or poop.”
http://time.com/4785663/diarrhea-outbreaks-dirty-pool-water-on-rise/
HI Express pool has sign which specifies having had chronic symptoms within the last 2 weeks. So if you had it last week even if you feel fine now, they want you to stay out of the pool.
Oh sure, but just wait till someone decides we are fecalphobes if we object to poop in public pools.
I'm not a pool person in the least but if I wanted to go into a public pool, this wouldn't stop me. The risk is really pretty trivial.
Ain’t diversity grand?
Huh?
Just don’t swim in public pools at all.
Don’t do it.
I have been a security guard at hotels and condos. Now the thought of getting into a public or resort pool makes me wonder why I would want to swim in a giant toilet. If three people play in the pool it may well be that; if more than three then it is surely that.
Thank God for the CDC. Every time in the past, when I have had a case of diarrhea, I have always made a “bee-line” to a nearby hotel pool.
We are so fortunate to have the government advise us on these difficult to handle situations.
how about incontinent older people?...
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AND BABIES. The last touch I had of diarrhea was after I was in a hot tub where idiot moms had their babies.
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