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Disease Prevention: Swimming Pool

If a kid has a diarrhea, Dr. Ketevan Vladi, Internal Medicine Physician with Baptist Health South vFlorida, advises keeping him out of the pool, because there is a risk he can continue to carry it and spread it in the pool. Dr. Valdi talks about the CDC regulations about concentration of chlorine and how the sides of the pool should be washed to prevent Pseudomonas accumulation.

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