Personal Injury Law

South Wales Pool Makes 30 Sick With Crypto; Eight Being Held In Isolation

The British call them the "wet activities," which apparently refers to just about anything that can be done in a swimming pool.

In the South Wales town of Merthyr Tydfil the town has a deck level competition size swimming pool complete with electronic score boards for keeping track of those in-water competitive events.

There's both an adjoining learning pool and a leisure pool that comes with  flume , spa bath, & water features.   Oh, and did we tell you that all the pools are combatting the outbreak of the parasite cryptosporidium?

Eight swimmers who used the Merthyr Tydfil pool are now being kept in isolation after being struck by the crypto parasite.

Health officials traced the outbreak to a pool party at the town's leisure centre two weeks ago, but were quick to reassure residents the pool is now clear of the disease.

More than 30 of the 46 people who attended the party complained of illness after swimming in the pool.

Dr Gwen Lowe, consultant in communicable disease control, at the National Public Health Service Wales, said: 'A likely source of this outbreak of illness is a faecal accident.

'Our advice is that anyone who has vomiting or diarrhoea from any cause should not swim for two weeks after their symptoms have settled.'

Full post as published by Cryptosporidium Blog on September 12, 2009 (boomark / email).