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And today in “not all microbes are good” — fun with Crypto in Swimming Pools

Health officials are asking Americans to take precautions over reports that “crypto,” a fecal parasite that can be transmitted via swimming pools, is on the rise.

Source: ‘Crypto’ warning: CDC says fecal parasite can live for days in swimming pools – CNN

From the article

The parasite is a problem in pools is because an infected swimmer can excrete the parasite at several orders of magnitude higher than the amount necessary to cause infection. Cryptosporidium has a high tolerance to chlorine and can survive in a properly chlorinated pool for up to seven days, the CDC says.

And in case you want to go to a public pool to deal with the heat ..

That last one is most important, as 24% of American say they’d jump in a swimming pool within an hour of having diarrhea, according to a survey released last month by the Water Quality & Health Council

 

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