(I wonder if this concerns Waukesha?) (I also will not show sender, as nothing is confirmed)
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Hi All,
Because the population of people I work with have compromised immune systems my agency was on the short list of organizations that were contacted by the statewide CDC. Testing is currently being done on Milwaukee County’s water, it will not be completed for three to four days. The CDC believes that there will be significant amounts of cryptosporidium found in the water. For this reason they are contacting agencies like mine, and hospitals and asking that they urgently notify their clients and patients to not to drink the water. This is not being made public yet because they don’t know how bad it will be, and they don’t want to cause a public panic. (deleted).
That being said, please know that it is assumed that there will be serious infections statewide. People will not be warned until testing confirms this, at which time all of us will have consumed a lot of the ‘bad’ water. The CDC is recommending that people drink bottled water or boil water for at least 5 minutes. If you live in Milwaukee County, or have family and friends who do please be aware of this concern and avoid drinking the water.
Glad we got the news early.
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Subject to Change » Blog Archive » Unconfirmed, And Extremely Annoying said,
July 4, 2008 at 10:33 am
[...] Another blogger is sticking his neck out to report a potentially breaking, yet unconfirmed, story. An old friend may have returned to Milwaukee. [...]
Aaron said,
July 4, 2008 at 10:35 am
Thankfully, we don’t drink the water.
We currently have a cancer patient living with us and appreciate the warning!
Alexander said,
July 5, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Cancer SUCKS… having to get your alerts from some lame blogger rather than the people that are supposedly here to serve YOU sucks too. Just the sheer numbers of those copied on the emails and the agencies involved, along with the “we don’t want to cause a panic” language should have been enough to tip off someone in the regular press.
Thankfully (so far) the testing time has come and gone and (as far as I can tell) no alerts have been issued, I just wish someone would have sent out a “just in case” alert or somethin. Thanks CDC, glad to know I can count on you…