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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We don't swim in your toilet.
Don't you Pee in our pool.
Studies have shown that every door knob or handle sampled and tested are contaminated with human feces.
Now, imagine what's on the handles of the spoons/utensils at "all you can eat" restaurants.
You’re horrible. There’s a “spark of divinity” in people with diahhrrea. Why, our great grandparents had diarrhea. It’s just plain hateful and non inclusive to keep them out.
You can’t blame this on black people.
I gotta think this has something to do with all the Mexicans, moslems and Somalians arriving thanks to Bush and Obama.
Common sense is long dead in this country.
In the book Camp Of The Saints, arab immigrants with gonorrhea contaminated the public pools in France. The result was horrible infections for the children who swam there. Grossss! I only swim in the Potomac River the Occoquan River and the Rappahannock River. Pools are human broth.
WORST.....PEPTO.....BISMOL......AD......EVER!!!
Eat Cheese. ;-)
If they do that to the pools imagine what they do behind closed doors. You can’t sanitize a mattress. Really inspires the urge to travel doesn’t it?
And all these years when travelers came home sick they blamed the airline "air", but it's really he germ infested hotels.
Is there some sort of Background Check to insure that People meet those requirements?
I’ve never used a Public Hot Tub / Spa, and now I have no desire to use a Public Pool, even the one at the Bellagio.
I don’t recall making mention of any particular racial group.
lol...
It’s mass Third World immigration generally. Import the Third World, become the Third World. Assimilation can’t keep up with the human tide.
A guy I know in the hospitality industry says you would never go into a hotel pool or spa if you saw the tests they do on the water (and what gets cleaned and filtered out). Lots of nasty stuff, no way to know if the chemicals killed yesterday’s bugs before guests get back in today. You’re better off swimming in fish pee.
Except, if a person has had diarrhea at some point during the day, unless he’s had a complete shower afterwards, he will have a variable number of fecal bacteria on his body. And it only takes a few to multiply into billions. I don’t know about now, but when I was a kid, you had to shower off, before e entering a public or school pool.
Had an aunt and uncle who took their own bedding with them when they stayed in hotels. I thought they were eccentric, but now I’m thinking it’s not a bad idea. And this was years ago. I’m sure the conditions are worse, now.
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