Parents Avoid Kiddie Pools After Illnesses
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Frightened parents are keeping their children out of public kiddie pools after a youngster with diarrhea spread an extremely dangerous strain of E. coli at a Marietta water park. At least eight children were infected, and two were in critical condition. The state set up a hotline to handle calls from parents worried about the E. coli outbreak at White Water Park in this Atlanta suburb. Five hundred people called in the first six hours.
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