Six school pools closed after students sickened
"School officials closed six middle-school pools in the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District on Tuesday, pending a Minnesota Department of Health investigation into a parasitic infection that has sickened students.Two members of a community swim team have been confirmed with cryptosporidiosis recently and another 16 students in elementary and middle school have reported illnesses that indicate infections, said Dr. Joni Scheftel, an epidemiologist at the Health Department.
Symptoms can include diarrhea, cramps, nausea, vomiting, fever, fatigue and weight loss, and can last as long as two weeks.
The illnesses, which began about Sept. 28, were reported late Monday afternoon to the Health Department, Scheftel said.
Swim team members used various pools, but it was too early to identify the source of the infections, she said.
The department had urged the closing of pools at Falcon Ridge, Blackhawk and Dakota Hills middle schools, but school officials closed all six used by middle-school students, she said."
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