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Original Post Date: 2008-01-09 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Adriana
Dutch canoeists’ website warning about Dusi health hazards:
http://www.stroeken-electro.nl/afvaart/persberichten/2008/080105_WAARSCHUWING_DUSI.doc
Saturday 5-Jan-2008 PIETERMARITZBURG — A dangerously high bacterial count due to sewerage dumping into the Umsunduzi river may cause Pietermaritzburg to lose its world-famous annual Duzi-marathon race site — scheduled to be held for the 57th time within two weeks.
And preliminary tests among 500 local canoeists who practice daily on this river also show that there could be a 5% bilharzia parasitic infection rate amongst them – indicating that bilharzia parasitic infestation has grown dramatically in this river since 1988, when the infection rate showed an 1.8% rate amongst a similarly-sized group of local canoeists.
The Natal Canoeing club has meanwhile put up warning notices at Kampsdrift crossing in Pietermaritzburg next to theriver, warning canoeists away from it due to dangerously-high e-coli levels due to sewerage and human faeces washing into it due to the heavy rains.
However local water-affairs officials deny that there’s any problems at all.
SA canoeists even have developed a name for this ‘non-existent problem” over the years, however, referring to it as “Dusi guts”…
In many ways, the suspected rise in the rate of bilharzia infestation among these local canoeists is however much more serious, as many hundreds of thousands of people rely on this river for their daily water needs and thousands of Zulu-children and women swim, washand play in it each day.
Bilharzia is a debilitating, chronic parasitic-worm infection in the blood which invades humans via small worms living inside snailsin the surface water. In its worst forms, bilharzia causes serious liver, intestinal, kidney and bladder infections and the worms can even infect the neurological/brain stem system, causing serious brain diseases. Adult bilharzia worms can live inside the human body for up to 30 years or more and cause seriously debilating effects on human health.
In 1988 a large group of canoeists who exercised on the river each day had tested for it and showed an 1.8% bilharzia-infection rate.
This year the preliminary test results among 500 canoeists show that this average bilharzia-infection may have risen to 5%, however with 167 test results having been verified thus far this is not yet a definite statistic since they are still awaiting the remaining results.
http://www.dusi.org.za/
Ray de Vries, spokesman for the 57th Dusi-marathon committee, said a crisis meeting has already been called to try and decide on an alternative, cleaner route. The Dusi – sponsored by a beer manufacturer and power-drink supplier — this year drew a record-number of entries – including from many international athletes.”We can’t afford not to have a plan-B or that everybody falls seriously ill,’ said De Vries.
One frequent winner and this year’s top favourite Ant Stott said he would pay close attention to the current health warnings to stay away from the ‘Duzi river because even a slight infection could cost him four days’ worth of practice time.
E-coli infections could even cause kidney failure in its worse form.
De Vries said the E-coli levels have been monitored carefully by their independent contract-laboratory throughout December, and their measurements on 27 December had read 20,000 parts per 100-ml – which even rose above 26,000 at Kampsdrift in Pietermaritzburg.
International health requirements are a ‘safe’ count of less than 2000 per 100ml must be maintained to keep people healthy.
The present levels thus indicate a very high risk to public health.
However the local government officials deny this claim, although Umgeni-Water company spokesman Shami Harichunder said the 27 December test-results ‘were not good’. He claimed that the later test results of 2 and 3 January were ‘better but still polluted’, pointing out that heavy rains just before Dec 27 ‘had flushed a great deal of sewerage pollution into the river.’
And Lin Gravelet-Blondin of the KZN water department denied the canoe-club’s claims, saying that their own Kampsdrift measurements showed am e-coli count of ‘only 2,600 parts per 100ml… “That is viewed as good rowing water,’ said Gravelet-Blondin.
BILHARZIA HEALTH PROBE:
Since 1988, the canoeist community has also voluntarily participated in an ongoing health-investigation for bilharzia-infections in SA rivers. Of the 196 returned results out of 500 submitted thus far, nine tested positive for bilharzia – four from Gauteng, four from Pietermaritzburg/Durban, and one from Nagle. “While this 5% positive rate seems quite low to a layman, earlier research in 1988 by Ian Bailey and Dr Chris Appleton had measured only 1.8% bilharzia infections,’ the website of the Dusi-marathon warns.
FUNDING NEEDED TO GET TREATMENT FOR KIDS PLAYING IN THE DUSI RIVER:
“If this increased trend is sustained over the balance of the full 500 samples, this will help Dr Appleton to get funding to do further work on bilharzia monitoring and eradication,’ noted the Duzi marathon website.
The marathoners also want to use the test results to help raise awareness and obtain educational programmes and treatment for the most vulnerable groups using the rivers — namely the many tens of thousands of young children who play in them and whose parents rely on this river as their only source of water.
Ms Oliver said she would provide every participant with the test results as soon as they were all in.
http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2246707,00.html
Source: http://www.stroeken-electro.nl/afvaart/persberichten/2008/080105_WAARSCHUWING_DUSI.doc