From: utzoo!decvax!wivax!dyer
Newsgroups: net.med,net.singles
Title: Re: Swimming/Herpes?
Article-I.D.: wivax.14853
Posted: Tue Apr 12 00:46:07 1983
Received: Wed Apr 13 00:59:52 1983
References: hogpc.129

I believe that the "hot tub" bug which has been recently reported
in such established medical journals as Time and Rolling Stone
is a gram-negative bacterium, Pseudomonas.  Apparently, these
little buggers breed in the moist interstices of the wood, and
can cause rather nasty skin infections when they are let loose
into the water.

A vinyl liner for your hot tub is recommended to avoid the problem.

Tubless in New England,
Steve Dyer