Re: Ailment Baffles Authorities

[Guest guest]

This sounds like what happened in Denver 15 years ago at the

Westminster inside water park. The occupantional medicine staff at

National Jewish solved it. Dr Cecile Rose is still there. Have

someone contact her.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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> People visiting Great Wolf Lodge- !!!INDOOR WATER PARK!!!- in Mason,

> Ohio, outside of Cincinnati, complain of rashes, respiratory

> problems and flu-like symptoms.

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> <http://preview.tinyurl.com/2cpbfn>

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> MASON – Officials at Great Wolf Lodge are working with state and

> county health officials to figure out why dozens of adults and

> children have experienced rashes, coughing and other minor

> respiratory or flu-like symptoms after visiting the new indoor water

> park.

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> Great Wolf officials said today they are working to solve the

> problem, and that health department tests of the pools' water showed

> nothing unusual.

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> Officials with the Warren County Health Department and Ohio

> Department of Health said they have received five or six complaints

> from groups or families since the beginning of the year.

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> No one has been hospitalized, but one child was taken to an

> emergency room and some have received medical treatment on the scene

> from paramedics or from their family doctors after leaving, said Dan

> , director of environmental health for the Warren County

> Health Department.

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> On any given weekend since Great Wolf Lodge opened in mid-December,

> 2,000 to 3,000 people are in the pools, he said.

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> None of the staff has reported feeling ill, added.

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> " It's been odd that it's only a few families complaining but this

> most recent complaint is the fourth incident, " said. " It is

> not a large amount of people but there's certainly a pattern of the

> problem. There is something going on. We are still at a loss, quite

> frankly, exactly what the problem is. "

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> Added Kristopher Weiss, spokesman for the Ohio Department of

> Health: " We don't get a lot of complaints so it's hard to quantify,

> but it's not something we hear about often. "

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> Great Wolf officials told the Warren County Health Department they

> asked the company that installed its ventilation system to inspect

> it today, said.

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> " The safety and wellbeing of our guests are the utmost importance, "

> Great Wolf officials said in a statement released.

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> " Great Wolf Lodge will continue to take all necessary steps to

> ensure that our water park is in full compliance with the

> regulations of the Warren County Department of Heath and the Ohio

> Department of Agriculture. "

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> The trouble could be that large amounts of chlorine are used in the

> park's pools and water slides, said.

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> " It's a heated building in an enclosed atmosphere and because of the

> pools being basically amusement rides, there's a lot of water

> splashing, " he said. " The water is coming out of the pool faster

> than it would in a still pool, so you end up with all these chlorine

> compounds in the air. "

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> County records show Dave Farrar of Mason filed a complaint with the

> Warren County Health Department after spending the weekend of Feb.

> 16-17 at the water park with a group of 11 relatives, including his

> wife and two children, Devin, 8, and Brenna, 11.

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> They wound up getting sick and left early, he said. They don't plan

> to return.

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> His children had rashes from " shoulder to toe, " he came down with

> stomach cramps and diarrhea and his wife developed stomach cramps

> and the flu, he said.

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> " The Great Wolf Lodge left us howling mad, " Dave Farrar

> said. " Everybody got sick. A lot of people we talked to that were

> staying there said their kids had rashes in the water and at night,

> their lungs were just filled with mucus and coughing. We had

> lifeguards telling us not to spend more than an hour in the enclosed

> pool but it was random. Nothing was posted. "

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> ###statement from Great Wolf Park####

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> <http://wcpo.com/news/2007/local/03/07/great_wolf_comment.pdf>

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