Re-Post - Combating Communicable Diseases at Summer Camp - CampHacker #56

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Hey Camp Pros, with concerns about the coronavirus and COVID-19, we’re going off-schedule and digging this show out of the CampHacker archives.

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From Travis: I have often said that camp would be an amazing place for a public health researcher to take a look at the ways that diseases are spread throughout communities.   I have watched little things like pink eye or head lice (traumatic, but not life-threatening) run through camp in less than a day.

In this episode of the CampHacker Podcast Gab and I were thrilled to bring in Marty Ferguson from YMCA Camp Chief Ouray in Colorado.  Camp Chief Ouray has developed some very smart protocols to protect their camper and staff from diseases that can spread at camp.

We also had John MacDonald, my step-dad, who is a retired Health Inspector from Ontario, Canada.   John has had a long career in the public health field and was always a great resource to Beth and I.     

Thank you to both of them for being on the show! 

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We hope you get lots from our discussion.   

If you have any questions about communicable diseases at camp please leave them in the comments below or send us a tweet to @CampHacker using the #CampPros hashtag.

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Marty: Season of Life by Jeffery Marx
John: HACCP training

Your Hosts:

• Travis Allison, Summer Camp Consultant - CampHacker.org
• Gabrielle Raill, Camp Director - Camp Ouareau
• Marty Ferguson, Director - Camp Chief Ouray (YMCA of the Rockies)
• John MacDonald, Retired Health Inspector

Thanks for the evening, friends.