Marion Outdoor Pool, SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre pool both closed over contagious parasite
Two Adelaide pools – including one at SA’s major aquatic and leisure centre – have been closed for urgent cleaning after a swimmer with contagious parasite visited them.
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A person with contagious parasitic disease forced the closure of two Adelaide pools on Thursday.
Marion Outdoor Pool closed on Thursday until March 22, after being told by SA Health a visitor with cryptosporidium attended 11 days earlier, on March 10.
SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre, at Oaklands Park, closed its leisure pools on Thursday, until early Friday morning, also after receiving advice from SA Health.
Chris Lease, an executive director at SA Health, confirmed SA Health had notified both public pools about the infectious person’s visit.
“SA Health received the notification about this cryptosporidium case on Wednesday this week and informed the operators of the Marion outdoor pool and the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre the same day,” he said.
“The same person attended both pools while infectious.”
Mr Lease said cryptosporidium highly infectious and must be taken in by the mouth to cause infection.
“SA Health advises that anyone with diarrhoea should not use a public pool while ill and for 14 days after symptoms have ceased,” he said.
“Both operators were advised that the appropriate response when a confirmed cryptosporidium case has swum in a pool while infectious is a precautionary decontamination of the pool.”
A school swimming carnival at Marion Outdoor Pool, planned for Friday, was cancelled along with swimming lessons.
A spokesman for Marion Council said it was working with the school to reschedule the carnival.
A Marion Council statement said the person had not contracted the disease from Marion outdoor pool.
Cryptosporidiosis is a disease caused by a microscopic germ (parasite), that lives in water, food, soil and causes watery diarrhoea, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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