Sunday, July 18, 2010

SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK IN PARTS OF BOCA CHICA








The Texas Land Office has
recommended an advisory for parts of Boca Chica beach due to high bacteria count coming from floodwaters from the Rio Grande.

The main route of exposure to disease-causing organisms in recreation waters is contact with polluted water while swimming, including accidental ingestion of contaminated water. In waters containing fecal contamination, potentially all the waterborne diseases spread by the fecal-oral route could be contracted by bathers. These illnesses include diseases resulting from the following:
  • Bacterial infection (such as cholera, salmonellosis, shigellosis, and gastroenteritis).
  • Viral infection (such as infectious hepatitis, gastroenteritis, and intestinal diseases caused by enteroviruses).
  • Protozoan infections (such as amoebic dysentery and giardiasis).

Swimming in contaminated water most frequently causes gastroenteritis. Gastroenteritis is the inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, usually caused by a microorganism. Symptoms include chills, nausea, diarrhea, and fever.

Although bathing in contaminated water most often results in contracting diseases that affect the gastrointestinal tract, diseases affecting the eye, ear, skin, and upper respiratory tract can be contracted as well. Infection often results when pathogenic microorganisms come into contact with small breaks and tears in the skin or ruptures in delicate membranes in the ear or nose resulting from the trauma associated with diving into the water.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Say Juan, I haven't seen abolutely nothing saying not to swim at SPI. Is it because they will lose customers at the condo's? Cause if it ain't safe at Boca Chica, I'm pretty sure it's full of feces at SPI too, or am I wrong?
Ren.

Anonymous said...

Right now, people shouldn't be swimming in none of these places. The ocean is dirty, because of the oil and now all the crap in the flood ways, the arroyo in Harlingen, is no more than a drain ditch that stinks during the hot summer days, when you walk the trail. The Harlingen Treatment plans drains into the Arroyo, yuck, yuck,

Anonymous said...

(the arroyo in Harlingen)

I saw a report on some non-english speaker catching a mess of fish out of the arroyo, recently. Some moron had the audacity to ask him what he was gonna do with them. He said "pos me los voy a comer", duh!!!
Ren.

Anonymous said...

("pos me los voy a comer")

He was shown walking away carrying an ice
chest full of his contaminated booty like it was a pot of gold. Poor schmuck.
Ren.

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