Everyone loves taking a good dip in a cool swimming pool in the summers hot days but recent study done by the CDC discovered that in 57 percent of pools they tested last summer tested positive for poop. yes poop. There is a wide number of ways the fecal matter could have gotten in the pool ranging from someone not quite getting it all to full on floaters. This is an alarming amount of pools considering fecal matter can lead to E-coli which is really bad for your health. The main question that has come about from this is how to keep the poop out. Researchers have suggested that swimmers bathe completely before getting into the public pool and those who may be sick with diarrhea simply sit out of the fun.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2013/05/17/cdc-fecal-matter-found-in-many-public-pools
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