Teen recalls E. coli kidney failure horror after lake weekend

What we do to the waterways is criminal and there is no coming back.

Who'd ever thunk dumping sewers in the rivers and oceans would be a bad thing?

I will be praying for Eva to be healed and also others in the world to be healed. 🙏🙏🙏

I took my dog for swimming at a lake near me in Pennsylvania. He swam and fetched him ball for an hour when some man ran up to me and said their was toxic algae in the lake and to get him out. There were no signs posted where we were swimming. He said he found a sign a mile away at a kayak rental station. My dog vomited and had diarrhea and needed charcoal. It was horrible but he lived and is doing well now. I am afraid to take him anywhere at this point.

Maybe that's how I got e-coli a few years ago. I live by a lake. It was in my urinary track and bladder. I was sick for a while before it was figured out

Kidney failure is the worst disease in my opinion. You’re basically dying in slow painful death. You must go to treatments 3x per week or you will die. You can’t eat whatever you want anymore. Your liquid intake will reduce significantly. You have to take medications for the rest of your life - even if you get a transplant. Due to the side effects of the medications, you will have trouble sleeping.

Looks like I’ll keep my swimming to my salt water pool and just stand on the beach

No more public swimming in nature. This is gross.

What about those Olympians swimming in Seine River

As if I wasn't scared enough of the water 😵‍💫🤧

So nobody conducts water quality testing on the lake recently? People could have been warned before if that lake was tested.

What a world we live in now, we really don’t know what we might encounter, so sad the many ways we can get sick on this earth. 🙏🙏🙏

The world has been extremely humid for 15 years. I will never swim in any lake or ocean right now.

Eye opening 👍

All lakes are like this in the hottest week of the summer. Please be careful during this week.

Not to mention forever chemicals

The Virginia DEQ is fundamentally a bureaucracy. They will "go through the motions" of conducting testing. But what we need in Virginia is a proactive environmental agency and a legislature that address obvious and omnipresent hazards. A good example is livestock grazing. Cattle and other livestock can freely wade right into bodies of water, where they defecate at will. Even if they don't defecate directly into the river or lake, they do so on land that is immediately adjacent, where rainfall runoff conveys the waste into the water. The farm lobby in this state is evidently very powerful, as nothing is done to mitigate this threat, even though it is widely known.

My biggest fear is Naegleria fowleri, which is why I don’t go swimming

This is why you won't catch me dead in a lake.

When that heat wave hit I kept my kids out of the lake near our house, it’s a breeding ground for parasites.