Diving into a public pool this summer? You might be plunging into a petri dish. While chlorine is the go-to germ killer, it doesn’t work instantly. Some nasty germs can survive in treated water for ...

57 swimmers fell sick and got diarrhea following a sea-swimming competition in Sunderland, England. The Environment Agency took a sample of the water and found high levels of E. coli. Environmental ...

Talk about a splash landing. A Kentucky water park’s pool became the unfortunate breeding ground for a mighty infection that gives painful symptoms like diarrhea, nausea, fevers, and painful cramping.

Dear Dr. Roach: While reading one of your recent columns, I learned that all water, except distilled, contains electrolytes. I wondered if there are differences in the amount of each electrolyte in ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: While reading one of your recent columns, I learned that all water, except distilled, contains electrolytes. I wondered if there are differences in the amount of each electrolyte in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Splash pads are popping up everywhere,” Michele C. Hlavsa, MPH, an epidemiologist and chief of the CDC Healthy ...