EHS Spotlight: It's 2012 Rec. Water Illness & Injury Prev. Week!

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New EHS Spotlight Features: Rec. Water Illness & Injury (RWII) Prevention Week 2012 (May 21-27)

New Healthy Swimming Data – New articles related to healthy swimming from MMWR - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports:

•  Announcements: Recreational Water Illness and Injury Prevention Week — May 21–27, 2012.
• Drowning — United States, 2005–2009.  
• Promotion of Healthy Swimming After a Statewide Outbreak of Cryptosporidiosis Associated with Recreational Water Venues — Utah, 2008–2009.      

RWII Tools – RWII prevention and response tools to increase public knowledge about recreational water illnesses and healthy swimming.

EHS Recreational Water topic page – Environmental health resources on recreational water.

Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) Updates – Status of the 14 code modules.

MAHC and International Swimming Pool and Spa Code – How these codes can complement each other (from the May 2012 Journal of Environmental Health).

EHS-Net Website Reorganization – Information about our work to identify and prevent environmental factors contributing to foodborne illness outbreaks.