Water probe at pool after five hit by bug

From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: November 15, 2002| Author: STEPHANIE TODD | Copyright information

A WATER safety investigation is under way at a Lothian swimming pool after five people, including a six-month-old baby, fell ill with the potentially-deadly cryptosporidium bug.

Bubbles Leisure Pool in Livingston has been closed to the public after three children, aged four to eight years old, and a 36-year- old man became ill after swimming there.

A six-month-old baby has also fallen ill with the bug which was responsible for 150,000 people in Glasgow being ordered to boil the...

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