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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.
 
ftw.usatoday.com

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 apex predator that might have severed the shark’s head, presumably consuming its…
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CL82 said:
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.
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Is this Deepster's other account?
 
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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.
 
Husky25 said:
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.
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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.
 
CL82 said:
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.
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Properly chlorinated is 1-3ppm. Just shock it every now and then. Especially before and after you have kids in your pool.
 
CL82 said:
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.
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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.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Properly chlorinated is 1-3ppm. Just shock it every now and then. Especially before and after you have kids in your pool.
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Cryptosporidium laughs at your 1-3ppm of chlorine.
 
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Husky25 said:
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.
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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.
 
uconnfan68 said:
Properly chlorinated is 1-3ppm. Just shock it every now and then. Especially before and after you have kids in your pool.
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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.
 
CL82 said:
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.
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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.
 
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Husky25 said:
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.
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Just a day at the beach for Cryptosporidium.
 
Husky25 said:
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.
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Sure your kids... but what about their friends?
 
CL82 said:
Sure your kids... but what about their friends?
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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.
 
CL82 said:
Good. It may save your life.
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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.
 
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So I was in Atlantic City this weekend and we went to a pool party. Someone got so hammered that they Spartacus’d in the pool. The place made everyone get out and eventually closed the pool for the day. Annoying at the time, but kind of glad now.
 
UCDaveD said:
So I was in Atlantic City this weekend and we went to a pool party. Someone got so hammered that they Spartacus’d in the pool. The place made everyone get out and eventually closed the pool for the day. Annoying at the time, but kind of glad now.
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Went to my cousin's wedding last year in Schenectady. A toddler (not mine) defecated in the hotel pool. They closed for 4 days to be drained completely, sanitized Caddy Shack style, refilled and retreated. Never said it wasn't a real concern for high load water. Just not for the vast majority of residential pools.
 
No more beaches. No more pools. I'm sure someone will pull up a link on how it's dangerous to take a bath.
 
HuskyBandDad said:
Oh crap I was just at Clearwater beach.
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Well, if you crapped you want to be careful of some fecal stuff which can withstand chlorine for up to a week.

As for the gulf, that stuff is always in the water. You'll see a dozen or so cases a year. Any cut in the water from shells or whatever better be thoroughly cleaned with medical grade cleaners.
 
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