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The Truth about Mold: Preventing Summertime Risks and Beyond

Mold is a common household nuisance and is found both inside and outside in varying amounts. For some people, mold and its spores...

Aug 14, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman

  • New NACCHO Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) Network Webinar Recordings

    Recordings and PowerPoint slides from the two most recent and highest attended Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) Network webinars are...

    Jul 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman

  • Keep Crypto out of the Pool: Addressing One of the Summer’s Major Public Health Risks

    By Hannah Donart, NACCHO Environmental Health Intern Cryptosporidium (Crypto) is one of the most common causes of diarrheal disease...

    Jun 29, 2017 | Guest Author

  • Seeking Participants: NEHA Recreational Water Health Assessment

    Annually, Americans average over 300 million visits to swimming pools, waterparks, and spas, visits that also account for over 3,000...

    Jun 14, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman

  • It’s All About Diarrhea During Healthy and Safe Swimming Week 2017

    The thirteenth annual Healthy and Safe Swimming Week is happening this week, May 22–28. Every year in the week leading up to Memorial...

    May 22, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman

    • Hazards & Health Effects, Water Quality

    Healthy and Safe Swimming Week: Response Tools for Public Health Professionals

    The Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Partner Toolkit 2019 is now available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The toolkit is a guide to help public health professionals engage their target audiences and increase awareness of this annual observance. The toolkit includes community outreach suggestions; online resources; a sample press release, feature, and proclamation; […]

    Apr 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro

    Tools & Resources, Water Quality

    CDC Releases 2018 Model Aquatic Health Code

    Government agencies and the aquatics sector can use the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) to reduce risk for outbreaks, drowning, and pool-chemical injuries at public pools and hot tubs/spas at apartment complexes, hotels, and waterparks. This third edition of the MAHC has been updated in the areas of disinfection and water quality, lifeguarding and bather […]

    Jul 23, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

    All of Us, Climate Change, Water Quality

    Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Messages for Summer Safety

    The summer months present a unique set of environmental health challenges for practitioners to consider. Climbing temperatures awaken a host of public health vectors (animals and insects that can transmit diseases to humans). Public pools reopen, with children flocking to splash around in—and, most likely, swallow—water that local health departments must ensure is adequately chlorinated. […]

    May 24, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

    Tools & Resources, Webinar, Water Quality

    MAHC Network Webinar Recording | Aligning Inspections with the MAHC: Introducing CDC’s New App, Aquatic Inspector

    The Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) Network is a community for MAHC users, subject matter experts, and those hoping to learn about the code itself. Members will receive updates on the code, have access and provide input to newly developed resources, and join bi-monthly webinars featuring the code and users. On March 27, 2018, NACCHO […]

    Mar 28, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro

    The Truth about Mold: Preventing Summertime Risks and Beyond

    Mold is a common household nuisance and is found both inside and outside in varying amounts. For some people, mold and its spores cause very few problems, while for others it can be devastating—even life threatening. In the U.S., there are over two million children with chronic and other serious conditions that are at higher […]

    Aug 14, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman

    New NACCHO Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) Network Webinar Recordings

    Recordings and PowerPoint slides from the two most recent and highest attended Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) Network webinars are now available via NACCHO’s MAHC Network webpage. In coordination with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy and Safe Swimming Week 2017, May’s webinar focused on how to prevent the increasing prevalence of Crypto, one […]

    Jul 28, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman

    Keep Crypto out of the Pool: Addressing One of the Summer’s Major Public Health Risks

    By Hannah Donart, NACCHO Environmental Health Intern Cryptosporidium (Crypto) is one of the most common causes of diarrheal disease outbreaks associated with recreational water activity in the United States and these outbreaks are occurring at increasing frequencies. In 2016 alone, state health departments reported at least 32 outbreaks of the disease associated with swimming pools […]

    Jun 29, 2017 | Guest Author

    Seeking Participants: NEHA Recreational Water Health Assessment

    Annually, Americans average over 300 million visits to swimming pools, waterparks, and spas, visits that also account for over 3,000 unintentional drownings, 4,500 chemically-related emergency room visits, and 5,000 recreational water illnesses. In an effort to improve water safety nationwide, the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) is conducting an assessment of aquatic inspection...

    Jun 14, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman

    It’s All About Diarrhea During Healthy and Safe Swimming Week 2017

    The thirteenth annual Healthy and Safe Swimming Week is happening this week, May 22–28. Every year in the week leading up to Memorial Day–—the kickoff to the summer swim season–—the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) promotes tips, resources, and guidelines for how swimmers, parents of young swimmers, and aquatic professionals can put health […]

    May 22, 2017 | Anastasia Sonneman

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