Published Date: 2000-08-05 23:50:00
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Cryptosporidiosis, pool-associated - USA (Ohio)
Archive Number: 20000805.1307
CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS, POOL-ASSOCIATED - USA (OHIO)
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Cryptosporidiosis, swimming pools - UK (England) 19991125220736
Cryptosporidiosis, human - New Zealand (02) 19991018082203
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Cryptosporidiosis - Australia (New South Wales)(03) 19980418134949
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Cryptosporidium in pools, cider 19941125101743
Date: 4 Aug 2000
From: Abramo Ottolenghi <ottolenghi.1@osu.edu>
Source: Columbus Dispatch 4 Aug 2000 [edited,
<http://libpub.dispatch.com/cgi-bin/slwebcli.pl?DBLIST=cd00&DOCNUM=23877&TERMV=15667:8:15675:5:>
An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis is being associated with a private swim
club pool in Powell (Delaware County) after 60 individuals, mostly
children, became ill. The first two cases were confirmed on 28 Jul 2000.
The pool has been voluntarily closed.
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Abramo Ottolenghi
Professor Emeritus
Molecular virology, Immunology and Human Genetics
The Ohio State University
College of Medicine
333 W. 10th Ave
Columbus, Ohio 43210
<ottolenghi.1@osu.edu>
[It is well known that _Cryptosporidium_ cysts are not killed by
chlorination. The usual reservoir for _Cryptosporidium_ is calves and small
rodents and somehow the pool water must have been contaminated with feces
from one or more of these animal sources or from infected humans.
-Mod.EP/-Man. Ed. DS
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