Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water

[CL82]

Enjoying your pool? Maybe a buddy invited you over pool party? Well think again my friends. There is danger lurking. A fecal parasite that live for days in a pool. Fecal parasite? Yup, you sons friends pooh fragments may be contaminating your pool and swimming up your rectum.

Maybe it's best just to close the pool a bit early... like now.

 

[temery]

Giant shark head sparks concern about much larger predator

A photo circulating via social media shows a fisherman posing with the enormous head of a mako shark hauled in off New South Wales, Australia. This has left many wondering about the size of the ape…

ftw.usatoday.com

 

[storrsroars]

Enjoying your pool? Maybe a buddy invited you over pool party? Well think again my friends. There is danger lurking. A fecal parasite that live for days in a pool. Fecal parasite? Yup, you sons friends pooh fragments may be contaminating your pool and swimming up your rectum.

Maybe it's best just to close the pool a bit early... like now.

Is this Deepster's other account?

 

[CL82]

Is this Deepster's other account?

No. If it was it would be about the fecal parasites in Hartford pools.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Black bear takes a dip in Holley by the Sea pool, prompting alert to residents and swimmers

With heat indices reaching near-record temperatures in the Florida Panhandle, even Santa Rosa County's furriest residents are seeking refuge from the sun.

www.pnj.com

 

[CL82]

Giant shark head sparks concern about much larger predator

A photo circulating via social media shows a fisherman posing with the enormous head of a mako shark hauled in off New South Wales, Australia. This has left many wondering about the size of the ape…

ftw.usatoday.com

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That shark was probably a victim of flesh eating fecal parasites. They are a known variant.

 

[Husky25]

This is a public pool/water scare. If a pool is properly maintained, there is zero risk. Much easier for private residential owners to maintain higher standards than a public pool, hotel, or a pool club.

 

[CL82]

This is a public pool/water scare. If a pool is properly maintained, there is zero risk. Much easier for private residential owners to maintain higher standards than a public pool, hotel, or a pool club.

Au contraire, mon frere...

The parasite is a problem in pools is because an infected swimmer can excrete the parasite at several orders of magnitude higher than the amount necessary to cause infection. Cryptosporidium has a high tolerance to chlorine and can survive in a properly chlorinated pool for up to seven days, the CDC says. In pools, cryptosporidium can enter the body when a swimmer swallows contaminated water.

Face it fecal parasites are swimming around your properly maintained pool at this very moment just waiting for their chance.

 

[Chin Diesel]

 

[uconnfan68]

Au contraire, mon frere...

The parasite is a problem in pools is because an infected swimmer can excrete the parasite at several orders of magnitude higher than the amount necessary to cause infection. Cryptosporidium has a high tolerance to chlorine and can survive in a properly chlorinated pool for up to seven days, the CDC says. In pools, cryptosporidium can enter the body when a swimmer swallows contaminated water.

Face it fecal parasites are swimming around your properly maintained pool at this very moment just waiting for their chance.

Properly chlorinated is 1-3ppm. Just shock it every now and then. Especially before and after you have kids in your pool.

 

[Husky25]

Au contraire, mon frere...

The parasite is a problem in pools is because an infected swimmer can excrete the parasite at several orders of magnitude higher than the amount necessary to cause infection. Cryptosporidium has a high tolerance to chlorine and can survive in a properly chlorinated pool for up to seven days, the CDC says. In pools, cryptosporidium can enter the body when a swimmer swallows contaminated water.

Face it fecal parasites are swimming around "your properly maintained pool" at this very moment just waiting for their chance.

7465 cases / 300 million = 0.0024883%
No distinction in the 156 cases found in treated water between private residential vs. public sites?
6 states account for nearly all of the cases, with none in Connecticut.

Is this really a national epidemic. Regardless if there were an isolated case or two in Connecticut, I personally have less than a zero concern with my set up. The article does not state what they consider what is properly maintained. I have significantly higher standards than what Leslie's or Namco recommend.

 

[CL82]

Properly chlorinated is 1-3ppm. Just shock it every now and then. Especially before and after you have kids in your pool.

Cryptosporidium laughs at your 1-3ppm of chlorine.

 

[CL82]

7465 cases / 300 million = 0.0024883%
No distinction in the 156 cases found in treated water between private residential vs. public sites?
6 states account for nearly all of the cases, with none in Connecticut.

Is this really a national epidemic. Regardless if there were an isolated case or two in Connecticut, I personally have less than a zero concern with my set up. The article does not state what they consider what is properly maintained. I have significantly higher standards than what Leslie's or Namco recommend.

It only takes one infected kid, perhaps one who also swims in a public pool and your pool becomes a giant petrie dish. I only say this because I care.

 

[mauconnfan]

 

[HuskyBandDad]

Nothing survives in my pool. Your skin falls off if you stay in more than 15 minutes. 1-3ppm haaa.

 

[Husky25]

Properly chlorinated is 1-3ppm. Just shock it every now and then. Especially before and after you have kids in your pool.

Depends on Cyanuric acid (stabilizer) levels. I like to keep CYA between 30-40 ppm, which puts my minimum Free Chlorine at 3ppm and a target of 5-7. In a 27,000 gallon pool that is about 3/4 -1 gallon of 12.5% "shock"/day.

 

[Husky25]

It only takes one infected kid, perhaps one who also swims in a public pool and your pool becomes a giant petrie dish. I only say this because I care.

If you get scared off by less than 1/4 of 1/100th of 1%, with no documented case within 100 miles, then stay your hind parts out the pool. I'll stay cool and have fun with my potty-trained children.

 

[Chin Diesel]

And more open water fun.

Flesh eating bacteria that exists in Gulf of Mexico.

12-year-old contracts flesh-eating bacteria while vacationing in Florida

Kylei Brown now faces surgeries, treatments and weeks of physical therapy so she can walk again

www.cbsnews.com

 

[CL82]

Depends on Cyanuric acid (stabilizer) levels. I like to keep CYA between 30-40 ppm, which puts my minimum Free Chlorine at 3ppm and a target of 5-7. In a 27,000 gallon pool that is about 3/4 -1 gallon of 12.5% "shock"/day.

Just a day at the beach for Cryptosporidium.

 

[CL82]

If you get scared off by less than 1/4 of 1/100th of 1%, with no documented case within 100 miles, then stay your hind parts out the pool. I'll stay cool and have fun with my potty-trained children.

Sure your kids... but what about their friends?

 

[Husky25]

Sure your kids... but what about their friends?

If they are in my pool, I'll take those chances. Kemba Walker has a far better shot of being inducted into the the Naismith HoF with only his accomplishments to date.

 

[Husky25]

Cryptosporidium laughs at your 1-3ppm of chlorine.

I absolutely believe this.

 

[CL82]

I absolutely believe this.

Good. It may save your life.

 

[Husky25]

Good. It may save your life.

That's why I do my own testing, maintenance, and my Free Chlorine levels are at least twice what is typically recommended. Many services don't pay attention to stabilizer and stores commonly offer free water testing in order to sell truly unneeded chemicals.

At the end of the day, this is far more a concern fro commercial pools than it is residential.

 

[LBird33]

Properly chlorinated is 1-3ppm. Just shock it every now and then. Especially before and after you have kids in your pool.

2 gallons of bourbon