“This is one of the reasons why, if there is a fecal accident in a pool, there is protocol the lifeguards and pool operators follow before allowing people back into the water,” explained Dr ...

The most common RWI by far is diarrhea which affects thousands who accidentally swallow infected pool water. This was 10 times the rate of the decade before, Michael Beach, epidemiologist at the ...

This marks the second time in a week that a fecal release occurred in the ... for at least a minute before entering the pool, ...

the presence of bacteriophages in water does not equate to "cleaner" water... Bacteriophages can be used as fecal indicators or microbial water quality bioindicators as an early warning of ...