UTAH: Pool potties: Babies should be banned from public pools - (The Salt Lake Tribune)
March 10, 2008 – 5:58 pmhttp://www.sltrib.com/ci_8513702
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/03/articles/food-safety-communication/nothing-will-keep-babies-from-pooping-in-pools-so-ban-babies/index.html
The Utah Department of Health has, according to this editorial, reached a compromise in its attempt to keep toddlers in public swimming pools, and the cryptosporidium parasite out.
Under proposed rules being floated by the department, babies will be allowed to swim if they wear tight-fitting swim diapers and/or waterproof pants.
Normally, compromise is a good thing. But, the editorial says, not in this case. Not when the compromise might compromise the public health.
Last year, there were 1,949 confirmed crypto cases in Utah, up from an average of 14. Dozens of persons were hospitalized with severe diarrhea. Nearly 90 percent of the cases were linked to recreational swimming.
The parasite is spread via fecal-oral contact. Contaminated feces finds its way into the water, often from babies wearing diapers that claim to be leakproof but aren’t. The water gets into your mouth, and the parasites, resistant to chlorine at ordinary levels, party hearty in […]
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