Michele Hlavsa, RN, MPH

Michele Hlavsa, RN, MPH, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, ­Atlanta. She is chief of the CDC’s Healthy Swimming Program. CDC.gov

Dangerous Parasite in Swimming Pools

Dangerous Parasite in Swimming Pools

Michele Hlavsa, RN, MPH | July 13, 2017

That crystal-clear pool water could be harboring Cryptosporidium, a parasite that can cause up to three weeks of diarrhea, stomach…