While this particular case is likely a one off, and would have been almost impossible to prevent, there are some easy and commonly known best practices with regard to water testing and operating water amusement rides that could have been in place. I’m shocked that PA doesn’t require something similar, especially considering that PA has been historically progressive with regulatory matters regarding amusement rides operating there. My park is not in PA, and our state regulations require our hard ride water rides to comply with our state bathing code for recreational bathing facilities, essentially making them “swimming pools”. An unlikely chain of events.but shouldn't someone be required to test the water? Seems likely it came in through that open wound and incubated directly in his eye, and that he'd scratched his eye putting in or removing contacts. I'd read in some health magazine that contact lens wearers were at specific risk for the eye issue he had - and read here that an open injury (Dr. Perer said his client’s eye problem began two days after he was at Kennywood, and that two days also is the incubation period for the microsporidia parasite." As I said on FB, I'd be surprised if the park doesn't find it cheaper to simply pay the relatively small sum - especially considering this new-to-me information from this artcle: "But Mr. I'd have imagined some routine pH testing and chlorine levels like you might for your home pool, with more in-depth independent lab testing at the beginning of the season and mid-season.kind of surprised. Picturing Abby Sciuto in her lab testing the DNA of the miscrsporidia from the man, and from the ride, to prove that the water in Raging Rapids is (or is most certainly not) the actual point-source of the illness.
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