Recreational Water Illness Prevention, 2009: Charting a Course through Stormy Waters

摘要

EHSB's objective is to strengthen the role of state, local, and national environmental health programs and professionals to anticipate, identify, and respond to adverse environmental exposures and the consequences of these exposures for human health. Examples include the following: * an increase in the number of outbreaks reported, * emergence of the chlorine-resistant parasite Cryptosporidium as the leading cause of pool-associated outbreaks, * problems with air quality at indoor aquatic facilities, * continued pool chemical handling accidents, * growing evidence that pools are not being maintained as well as needed, * state and local legislators seeking to eliminate pool programs, and * enactment of the Virginia Graeme-Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (http://wwwcpsc. gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09065.html).