Are You Swimming in a Pool of Parasites?

Fun swimming pool or parasite soup?

Ahhhh, summer time. Sunshine, watermelon, a relaxing day at the pool...
A swimming pool can offer loads of fun, as well as relief from summer heat, but swimmers should know what they are jumping into. It could be a soup of nasty parasites.

Reports of gastrointestinal illness from use of public pools and water parks have risen sharply in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The leading culprit is a microscopic organism that lives in human feces. DISGUSTING!! Called cryptosporidium, it is a parasite transmitted in an egglike shell that can survive as long as 10 days even in chlorinated water. EESH.

In 2007, the last year for which statistics are available, it was responsible for 31 recreational water outbreaks involving 3,726 people, according to the disease centers up from 7 outbreaks and 567 people in 2004.

Thanks to Multi-Pure, you no longer have to worry about cryptosoridium getting into your drinking water. Crypto is one of the many contaminants that our filters remove. Yay. Unfortunately, you're on your own when you choose to go to that neighborhood water park...

-Trina-