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Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Messages for Summer Safety

Posted on May 24, 2018

Blog: National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)

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. […]

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