BEACHNET==> July 30 Wall Street Journal article regarding crypto outbreaks in pools

["Shannon Briggs" <briggss4@michigan.gov>]

This article relates to swimmers at beaches---please see article online, especially quotes from Jonathan Yoder and Michael Beach from the CDC and Lance Latham from Kimberly-Clark:

Since crypto isn't affected by chlorine (except at levels unsafe for humans), combating the parasite will require not only pool officials but also swimmers to shift their thinking. "It's a change in understanding on the part of the people that swim," says Jonathan Yoder, who coordinates the CDC's water-borne-disease outbreak surveillance system. "It's important for them to understand they can transmit illness when they swim when they're ill. The water is not sterile."

Another way to battle the threat of a crypto outbreak is for more pools to require swimmers to shower before entering the pool. A public pool is "a public bath tub," Dr. Beach says. "We need to keep things sanitary."

"No product either durable or disposable is designed to contain bowel movements while under water for a long time," says Lance Latham, a spokesman for Kimberly-Clark, which makes Huggies Little Swimmers diapers. "Little Swimmers are not intended to contain diarrhea."

The story is found at
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121737309621094969.html 

Battling the Parasite in Your Local Pool
By ANNA PRIOR
July 30, 2008; Page D1


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