By IDSE News Staff
Going to spend Memorial Day weekend at a hotel? You might want to stay out of the pool. One-third of recreational waterborne disease outbreaks during 2000 through 2014 occurred in hotel pools or hot tubs, according to a CDC report.
The 493 outbreaks reported during this period resulted in at least 27,219 illnesses and eight deaths. Cryptosporidium, Pseudomonas and Legionella caused most of these outbreaks. The number of respiratory disease outbreaks caused by Legionella