Public Health is awaiting lab tests on the other cases to confirm the common source. Results are expected in a week. While early cases are tied to exposure at White Water during June 11 and 12, four cases confirmed yesterday, including the Alabama and Kentucky cases, indicate that children may have been infected as late as June 17. Tests are still pending to confirm whether the strain is the same as the earlier cases. The June 17 exposures may have been due to reintroduction of the bacteria through another fecal incident, possibly by a child infected at the pool on June 11 or June 12.
Many children return to the park day after day during the summer.
However, at this point, we have no reports of cases involving children who were at White Water after June 17. If your child was at White Water from June 11-17 and has not shown symptoms, there is no cause for concern. Toomey reminds parents not to take a sick child to a public pool. These links will take you to sites outside of the Georgia Division of Public Health, Department of Human Resources web site. Thank you for visiting.