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Good reason not to use public/hotel pool
Posted: Wed 01 Mar 2017 8:00 pm
by Philoz
Re: Good reason not to use public/hotel pool
Posted: Wed 01 Mar 2017 10:47 pm
by RAZR63
Many years ago I was chucked out of my local public baths in the UK for peeing in the pool. I was on the top diving board at the time........
Reow as a child what: Good reason not to use public/hotel po
Posted: Thu 02 Mar 2017 7:54 am
by sophie
I have always loathed public pools, because I know what I was like as a child!! However, think what floats about in the sea. Rock and a hard place isn't it?
Re: Good reason not to use public/hotel pool
Posted: Thu 02 Mar 2017 8:06 am
by waddo
And what is inside your house water tank?? You shower in it every day!
Re: Good reason not to use public/hotel pool
Posted: Thu 02 Mar 2017 10:33 am
by TRNCVaughan
waddo wrote:And what is inside your house water tank?? You shower in it every day!
Legionnaires Disease.
Re: Good reason not to use public/hotel pool
Posted: Thu 02 Mar 2017 6:21 pm
by Fesenjan123
Take one of the boat trips and have a good look at the sea around the area where the three Merit Hotels are. You won't be tempted to get in the water.
Re: Good reason not to use public/hotel pool
Posted: Thu 02 Mar 2017 7:00 pm
by Philoz
Waddo-hopefully I dont have 75 litres of urine in my water tank,and I put a touch of chlorine in it, just in case someone has been relieving themselves in it.
Vaughan-doesn't legionaires eminate from airconditioning systems-specifically those in big hotels?
Re: Good reason not to use public/hotel pool
Posted: Fri 03 Mar 2017 5:43 am
by Kevin Lapta
Nope!
Any stored water untreated and at the right temperature has the potential for legionnaires
http://www.hse.gov.uk/legionnaires/thin ... nsider.htm
Re: Good reason not to use public/hotel pool
Posted: Fri 03 Mar 2017 5:59 am
by TRNCVaughan
Probably responsible for a number of deaths here in TRNC, but unrecognized.
Re: Good reason not to use public/hotel pool
Posted: Fri 03 Mar 2017 8:29 am
by kibsolar1999
oh, yes, the Legionnaires Disease... here in Cyprus also available from cold water tanks and pipes... and yes, aircons, heat pumps and so on.
some numbers from germany:
- 20.000-30.000 legionella pneumonia cases a year, death toll estimated at 4500.
- by the factor of 10 -100 !! , you may get the the lighter version, the pontiac feaver.
so, when "doubled" because of the better conditions for the small bacterias... it comes in N.Cyprus to 300 heavy infections, death toll 45, and approx 3000- 30.000 pontiac feaver cases a year.
and you believe you got a "summer flue"?
you may use chlorine..and then you may get sick from the chlorine... and due to corrosion your water tank (also DHW tabk), pipe work will start to leak. waterpump failures.... and so on...
Re: Good reason not to use public/hotel pool
Posted: Fri 03 Mar 2017 2:57 pm
by jofra
VERY useful and informative link; a neighbour last year highlighted the dangers just in your shower head....