Australia’s Gold Coast wants to wash up their act.

Though officers say they do not but know the precise supply, a well-liked swimming spot in Australia needed to briefly shut down resulting from a bacterial outbreak – in any other case referred to as a poo poo downside. The Gold Coast’s pure swimming spot, Currumbin Rock Swimming pools, is loaded with Enterococci, “a quite common bowel microorganism.

From The Guardian:

The hunt is on to seek out the supply of a faeces-related bacterial outbreak that has indefinitely closed a well-liked swimming gap within the Gold Coast hinterland.

Dr Yaoqin Hong from the Queensland College of Know-how’s Centre for Immunology and An infection Management mentioned the enterococcus was “a quite common bowel microorganism” and that the supply of the outbreak didn’t should be human. …

“The contamination supply … [usually] comes from somebody who had an accident within the pool,” he mentioned. “However the supply can come from wherever.” …

Enterococci might trigger urinary tract infections and different afflictions, however did not usually pose a severe well being menace. …

Social media is awash with different theories, with some pointing the finger at runoff from septic tanks and others involved a couple of canine connection.

However the Gold Coast fecal fiasco goes manner past the micro organism on the Swimming pools, with doggie doo being an enormous downside on Australian seashores courting again to at a minimum of 2021, resulting from lack of duty of each canine house owners and metropolis officers.

From Yahoo! final week:

Paula and Chris thought they have been swapping busy Brisbane life for an idyllic seaside way of life after they relocated to the Gold Coast in October.

However for the final 4 months they have been hit with a day by day downside that is left a stench up their noses.

“I’m disgusted on the extreme quantity of canine poo and full canine poo baggage left on our seashores and walkways in Bilinga,” Chris instructed Yahoo Information Australia.

“That is paradise right here, it is completely stunning and so they’re simply crapping throughout it,” Paula added. …

“They promote the Gold Coast as pristine and so they need tourism, but when you need to dodge canine poo to get onto the seashore, it is fairly disgusting,” Paula mentioned.