Cryptosporidium Blog
"Surveillance and analysis on cryptosporidium news and outbreaks."
Author: Marler Clark is a Seattle law firm that also authors E. Coli Blog, Marler Blog, Food Poison Blog, Campylobacter Blog, Hepatitis Blog, Listeria Blog, Norovirus Blog, Salmonella Blog and Shigella Blog.
Blawg Related Categories: Consumer Law • Health Law • Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • Product Liability Law • Law Firm
Recent Posts from Cryptosporidium Blog
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Settlement in the works in cryptosporidia sprayground class action
Craig Fox of the Finger Lake Times reported today that attorneys are ready to begin negotiating an out-of-court settlement in a lawsuit that claims about 2,000 people became sick with a waterborne intestinal illness after…
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New York Spray Park Class Action Cryptosoridium Update
UPDATE: The discovery process which is the formal means of getting information to support claims in a lawsuit is now complete. We have taken depositions of the key players in the spraypark outbreak and have…
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South Wales Pool Makes 30 Sick With Crypto; Eight Being Held In Isolation
The British call them the "wet activities," which apparently refers to just about anything that can be done in a swimming pool. In the South Wales town of Merthyr Tydfil the town has a deck…
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Washington University in St. Louis Provides Tell All On Cryptosporidium
The School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis is the publisher for the "Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal." It just published "up to date review of the biology, biochemistry and host parasite relationships of…
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CDC Advise For Dallas Back Yard Pool Owners Might Be Good For Other Hotspots
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has released a bulletin encouraging pool cleaning of Dallas pools on a weekly basis to prevent recreational water illnesses (RWI's). The announcement comes after a study concluded that the…
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Wisconsin City Closes And Then Re-Opens Popular Fountain That Is Not Treated and Sanitized To Public With Lot's of Warning Signs
City officials in Neenah, WS this week restarted a popular fountain in Shattuck Park, but at the same time imposed tougher rules to prohibit kids from playing in it. According to the local Post-Crescent newspaper,…
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Fear By Beer-makers About EPA Forced Change To Portland's Bull Run Waters
Portland's brewmasters say its wrong for the federal Environmental Protection Agency to apply one standard to all open drinking water systems across the entire United States. But forcing all open public water operations to install…
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Virginia's Rye Valley Water Authority Mum For 11 Months About Water Gone Bad
In Virginia, the Rye Valley Water Authority is being accused of going almost a year before telling the public that its water had gone bad. The Bristol Herald Courier reports on how that's got the whole…
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Ultraviolet Water Treatment Emerges As Way To Fight Cryptosporidium
New York has a new water safety regulation. It’s found in Section 6-3.11 and says: “Ultraviolet light disinfection is required in addition to approved Chemical disinfectant.” A company in Northwest England ---atg UV Technology—tells how that…
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Heritage Park Fountain Shutting Down Twice Daily, But Does Anyone Tell Swimmers Not To Poop In The Water?
In an editorial that went along way toward explaining to the public what's really going on at Olympia, Washington's Heritage Park Fountain, the Daily Olympian still fell too short of providing the public with a…