Personal Injury Law

Communitywide Cryptosporidiosis Outbreak--Utah, 2007

Posted on October 14, 2008
The Utah Department of Health (UDOH) received 1,902 case reports of laboratory-confirmed cryptosporidiosis during June-December 2007, compared with an annual median of 16 reports of laboratory-confirmed cases (range: six to 20) during 2002-2006. All 1,902 cases met the outbreak-related case definition...

Health Officials In Texas Want To Extend Pool Regulations To Sprayparks

Posted on October 05, 2008
Health authorities in Texas now say there is a dangerous oversight in state health codes. They have concluded that this summer's outbreak of the cryptosporidium parasite from Burger's Lake spread to sprayparks. Unlike larger public swimming pools, stand-alone fun fountains are not inspected and treated...

Andrews Park Splash Pad Shut Down Due to Crypto

Posted on September 20, 2008
Oklahoma is finding itself in the middle of another food or water borne illness--this time it is an outbreak of Cryptosporidium that's made at least 20 people sick.  KOCO-TV 5 in Oklahoma City reports: Oklahoma health officials are looking into an outbreak of a waterborne disease in McClain and Cleveland counties that may be linked to a Norman water park...

Dallas Spends Summer Fight Crypto: And Crypto Is Winning

Posted on September 02, 2008
Since late June, Dallas has seen 378 reports of laboratory confirmed cases of cryptosporidium connected to the use of recreational water facilities. Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) going into the Labor Day weekend again called on the public to take an active role in halting the spread of cryptosporidiosis (crypto)...

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Flags Over Columbus Public Health Flapping Hard As Much Work Goes On Inside

Posted on August 16, 2008
Add Cryposporidium to the list of food and water bugs that are making people in central Ohio ill this summer.   Over on the Shigella blog, we previously reported on central Ohio's bouts with E. coli, Salmonella Saintpaul, and Shigella.   Check out: Cases Of Diarrhea-Causing Bacteria Increase In Ohio Now its Crypto...

How Many Hotel/Motel Swimming Pools Are Cryto Breeding Grounds?

Posted on August 14, 2008
We doubt if many readers are going to be looking for a hotel or motel in Fort Dodge, Iowa.   However, if you are, avoid the check-in line at the Quality Inn.   It does not look like much (see picture), but there is a swimming pool inside for 96 room, 37-year old hotel/motel...

Cleburne, Texas Waits For "An Incident" Before Closing For Crypto

Posted on August 04, 2008
For the past month, much of the country has experienced temperatures in the 90 to 100 degree range.  That's not a time when anyone wants to close swimming pools, but many have been closed when the pesky Cryptosporidium parasite arrives on the scene...

Crypto Closes Popular Texas Lake For Ten Days

Posted on July 26, 2008
Burger's Lake, a popular waterhole in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, was set to re-opened today after being closed since July 16 to clean up  Cryptosporidium contamination. According to the Fort Worth Star Telegram: Workers at the popular swimming hole have completed the hyperchlorination process recommended by health officials, a park worker said...

How Phoenix Delivered The News That All Pools Are Closed!

Posted on July 16, 2008
"Good evening. I’m Phoenix City Manager Frank Fairbanks. Today we learned from Maricopa County officials that two swimmers who had used the city’s Starlight Pool have tested positive for the intestinal illness crypto-spor-i-dio-sis, commonly known as “crypto...

Intestinal parasites found in Pismo Beach waters

Posted on July 08, 2008
April Charlton, Senior Staff Writer for the Santa Maria Times, had some bad news for California's central coast over the 4th of July weekend. She reported: Intestinal parasites were found south of Pismo Pier and in the Cypress Street lagoon at the mouth of Pismo Creek, according to an ongoing water quality study by Pismo Beach...

Small Town In Iowa Gets Ready To Fight Crypto

Posted on May 21, 2008
Cresco, Iowa, population 3,905, located in Howard County on the border with Minnesota is one of those picture post card sort of small towns.   The Times Plain Dealer is a weekly newspaper that publishes on Wednesdays with a solid site on the web...

Upcoming Week Used To Fight "Crypto" In Recreational Waters

Posted on May 10, 2008
State and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control investigated a historic high number of illnesses involving recreational waters last year.  The upsurge is being driven by  Cryptosporidium ("Crypto").   Its a chlorine resistant parasite found in recreational waters including swimming pools and parks...

Provo Fights Crypto With High Tech Equipment

Posted on April 28, 2008
As regular readers will know, we've been following the reaction of local and state governments in Utah the likelihood that last summer's Crytosporidium outbreak will return this year.   Latest to do something is the City of Provo.  The Salt Lake Tribune reports:Provo will spend $200,000 to add high-tech equipment to fight cryptosporidium at swimming pools...

Common Misspellings of Cryptosporidium - cryptosporidium, cryptosperideum, cryptosporidium, cryptosporidia, cryptospordia

Posted on April 18, 2008
Cryptosporidium parvum (also known as "Crypto") is a parasite that is too small to be seen with the naked eye. It is found in water and food sources contaminated with the feces of infected humans, cattle, and other mammals. The infectious form of the parasite, known as an ìoocyst, it is highly resistant to the levels of chlorine normally found in drinking water and swimming pools.

44 Percent Increase In Crypto, FoodNet Data Shows

Posted on April 17, 2008
After the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention released the 2007 FoodNet data, most of the stories that were written focused on the fact that there was little change in the incidents of food-borne illnesses in 45-million person study area.There was, however,  one exception...

Giardia & Cryptosporidium Found In Alamosa's Water

Posted on April 09, 2008
KOAA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Colorado Springs and Pueblo, tonight (4/9/08) is reporting that parasites have been found in Alamosa's water.  KOAA reports that:Residents of Alamosa hoped that this was the day they'd get the all-clear on their municipal water supply...

Nevada Town Plans To Zap Cyptosporidium In Pool

Posted on March 26, 2008
We've written much about last summer's outbreak of Cryptosporidium in Utah.   Next door, in Nevada, the town of Fernley is making parasite control a big part of its pool upgrades.The municipality  of 19,700 is spending $731,368 on its "pool deck improvement project...

Nevada Town Plans To Zap Cyptosporidium In Pool

Posted on March 26, 2008
We've written much about last summer's outbreak of Cryptosporidium in Utah.   Next door, in Nevada, the town of Fernley is making parasite control a big part of its pool upgrades. The municipality  of 19,700 is spending $731,368 on its "pool deck improvement project...

Spanish Fork Did Not Warn About Crypto

Posted on March 15, 2008
Last summer's Cryptosporidium outbreak in Utah's public swimming pools continues to get attention.   First,  public health officials have been warned such large outbreaks are usually followed by a continued presence of the parasite the following year...

Spanish Fork Did Not Warn About Crypto

Posted on March 15, 2008
Last summer's Cryptosporidium outbreak in Utah's public swimming pools continues to get attention.   First,  public health officials have been warned such large outbreaks are usually followed by a continued presence of the parasite the following year...

A New Device To Combat Cryto In Water

Posted on March 04, 2008
Did you ever wish you had a magic wand that you could just wave at bacteria, viruses and protozoa in water that would prevent nasty bugs like giardia and cryptosporidium from reproducing and spreading havoc?Well, its now available at outdoor stores like REI for just $130...

A New Device To Combat Crypto In Water

Posted on March 04, 2008
Did you ever wish you had a magic wand that you could just wave at bacteria, viruses and protozoa in water that would prevent nasty bugs like giardia and cryptosporidium from reproducing and spreading havoc?Well, its now available at outdoor stores like REI for just $130...

Brandeis Researcher Fights Cypto Parasite

Posted on February 10, 2008
There is no vaccine for it and only a few medicines work well against without making the person with it even more sick.  The cryptosporidium parasite is truly a nasty, nasty bug.  The water-borne parasite makes thousands upon thousands of children in the third world sick with diarrhea...

They've Got A Cryptosporidium Outbreak Down Under

Posted on January 23, 2008
  Folks  in cold climates this time of year start thinking about places where its summer now.   You are probably not thinking about the bad things that can happen when temperatures warm up.   Australia's Victoria, for example, is right now suffering from  a cryptosporidium outbreak that is being blamed on the increase use of public swimming pools that comes with hot weather...

Big Payout Coming Over Scottish Outbreak

Posted on January 16, 2008
Almost five years ago, there was an outbreak of Crptosporidium in a public pool in suburban Glasgow that made 30 swimmers sick.   Only now are officials about to pay up, according to the Evening Times. Scotland's  Jonathan Paisley reports that:LEISURE chiefs face a £100,000 compensation bill after admitting full responsibility for a cryptosporidium outbreak in a public swimming pool...

FDA Was First To Act Against Baby's Bliss

Posted on January 08, 2008
The United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection moved against Baby's Bliss apple flavor gripe water last September.  On 9/21, FDA said:FDA is warning consumers not to consume Baby's Bliss Gripe Water, apple flavor, with a code of 26952V and expiration date of October 2008 (shown as '10/08' on the label)...

Health Canada Warns Parents About Baby's Bliss

Posted on January 07, 2008
A product for ill children is found to carry the dangerous parasite cryptosporidium and Health Canada is warning parents about it.   Where does the product come from?  China?  Nope.How about California?  Yep and the product is natural too...

Salt Lake Tribune Says Diapers and Pool Waters Do Not Mix

Posted on January 05, 2008
Utah health officials like Lewis Garrett who want to ban diaper-wearing tots from pools now have the backing of the editorial page at the Salt Lake Tribune.   The editorial writers really got into the subject:"Don't take this the wrong way...

Utah's Davis County considers diaper ban

Posted on December 28, 2007
Utah last summer recorded 1,963 cases of cryptosporidiosis. There were just 14 cases during the previous summer. Lewis Garrett, who was named 2007’s Health Officer of the Year by the Utah Association of Local Boards of Health, favors a permanent ban on diapers in public pools...

Cryptosporidium parasite restrictions entirely lifted in Utah

Posted on November 18, 2007
The final pool restrictions imposed last summer to curb an outbreak of the cryptosporidiosis parasite have been lifted in Davis County and statewide.  The Utah Department of Health announced Wednesday that the restrictions have been lifted. Pool operators are no longer required to hyperchlorinate pools and maintain higher levels of chlorine...

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