Last night I was watching *** as Folk. I thought first that it was neat that they actually went and got real swimmers to play the roles of high school swimmers. Then when the races began, they had the teenager who had become HIV while trying to survive hit his head on the wall. I think that the only reason they did any of the story was so that they could have some one call out the word ***, have people scream about contaminated blood & be very histerical.
So this morning, I called a friend who works in Denver with they county AIDS task force and asked if he could find any case of anyone getting HIV from blood in the water or if there had been any studies of HIV virus living in chlorinated water. It can't.
I was wondering how anyone would react if this happened in real life to them. What would you do if you were swimming in a pool and some one began to bleed badly? I'm sure I've swam with some one who is/was HIV+, afterall I've lived in our nation's capital.
Most state health boards have standard 'biohazard' cleanup procedures for use at swimming pools. At the pool I swim most at, we have cuts and such every once in awhile. When it happens, the lifeguards are notified, and they respond with their standard procedure. If the blood is on the pool deck, they clean it up with paper towels to get the pooled blood into a biohazard bag, and then wash the entire area with bleech, and then hose the area with water from a hose into the drain system. If there is a blood spill in the pool, for 'standard' cuts and such, there is plenty of chlorine in the pool, such that as long as the spill site is allowed to circulate for a few minutes, everything is washed away, and certainly killed.
-Rick
Most state health boards have standard 'biohazard' cleanup procedures for use at swimming pools. At the pool I swim most at, we have cuts and such every once in awhile. When it happens, the lifeguards are notified, and they respond with their standard procedure. If the blood is on the pool deck, they clean it up with paper towels to get the pooled blood into a biohazard bag, and then wash the entire area with bleech, and then hose the area with water from a hose into the drain system. If there is a blood spill in the pool, for 'standard' cuts and such, there is plenty of chlorine in the pool, such that as long as the spill site is allowed to circulate for a few minutes, everything is washed away, and certainly killed.
-Rick
