Orange Aquatic Centre closed for deep clean | Central Western Daily

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The Orange Aquatic Centre will be closed until at least Thursday afternoon after a couple with cryptosporidium visited the pool earlier this month. Cryptosporidiosis is a diarrhoeal disease caused by a parasite, cryptosporidium, which infects the intestine. A message from the aquatic centre on Wednesday morning read: “We’ve just received a notification from NSW Health, a couple of people visited the pool on February 8 who had cryptosporidium. READ MORE: David Fry convicted in Orange of driving in Molong without a licence “They had no symptoms at the time, but it can incubate for 14 days. “As a precautionary measure we’ve just begun a 36-hour ‘super chlorination’ which means the…