“Bathing can result in acute intestinal infection, respiratory infection, conjunctivitis.
The most unpleasant “guests” of the water in the fountain are enterovirus, rotavirus infections, viral hepatitis A, ”the message says.
It is also noted that various communications and lighting can be connected to the fountains, and carelessness when bathing can lead to serious injury or electric shock.
Tatyana Surovtseva, chief physician of the St. Petersburg City Clinical Hospital No. 20, commented in an interview with the FAN about the dangers of bathing in fountains.
According to her, lovers of bathing in fountains endanger not only themselves, but also those around them, and also do not think about doctors, who currently have a huge workload.
According to Surovtseva, it would be possible to introduce administrative penalties and fines.