By IDSE News Staff
Are you seeing an unusual number of diarrheal infections coming through the ER in the summer? They could be caused by a parasitic infection linked to swimming pools and water playgrounds; there have been twice as many outbreaks reported in two years, according to the CDC (MMWR Morbid Mortal Wkly Rep 2017 May 18. [Epub ahead of print]).
At least 32 outbreaks caused by Cryptosporidium linked to swimming pools and water playgrounds in the United States were reported in 2016,