Tag: Cryptosporidium
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Secondary & Supplemental Treatment: A Comparison for Aquatic Facilities
Comparing Secondary & Supplemental Water Treatment for Aquatic Facilities: Key Differences & Benefits Before we define and compare supplemental and secondary treatments, it’s important to understand why they’re gaining popularity in hotels, recreation centers, water parks and other facilities. Aquatics facilities are installing supplemental and secondary treatments to improve water and air quality, reduce risk…
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Crypto is Coming: Ready Your Resources
How Will Your Facility Get Ready For the Worst-Case Scenario? With pool season approaching, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on Crypto’s rising dangers will soon have the national and industry news buzzing. It’s not a matter of if, but when, the next outbreak will happen. When the Crypto alarm sounds at your…
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How to Protect Your Pool Against Crypto
If you’re running a public pool or a waterpark, your biggest nightmare probably involves an outbreak of illness starting at your facility. If your sanitation method fails to work properly, you run the risk of exposing your customers and staff to Recreation Water Illnesses (RWIs), which can damage your facility’s reputation or shut down your facility…
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How to Avoid Swimming-Related Parasites Warned by CDC
Summer is around the corner and before pools across the United States open, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report reminded us of the dangers of swimming-related parasites and how we can swim healthy. According to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report report, from 2000 to 2014 there were 493…
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Crypto Caution: CDC warns pool operators and swimmers
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Cryptosporidium parvum outbreaks linked to swimming pools and water playgrounds have doubled from 2014 to 2016 in the United States, according to a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by Centers for Disease Control. Commonly referred to as “Crypto,” this parasitic infection is transmitted by swimmers ingesting contaminated pool water. In 2016, the CDC got…
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Secondary Sanitation: A civic responsibility for aquatic professionals
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention developed the Model Aquatic Health Code to educate state and local authorities on safe and healthy best pool practices. With the MAHC, the CDC aims to decrease the amount of recreational water illness (RWI) outbreaks in public pools using traditional chlorine sanitation. MAHC recommends both primary and secondary disinfection…