New insights into when beach sand may become unsafe for digging and other contact

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 12:31 in Health & Medicine

With summer days at the beach on the minds of millions of winter-weary people, a new study provides health departments with information needed to determine when levels of disease-causing bacteria in beach sand could pose a risk to children and others who dig or play in the sand.

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