WAKE COUNTY, N.C. – A Wake Forest pool is closed after someone who swam there was found to have a highly contagious parasite.

• Holding Park Pool is closed.
• Someone who swam there was found to have Crypto.
• Crypto is a highly contagious parasite that can be spread by fecal matter. 

The town says they’re closing Holding Park Aquatic Center as a precautionary measure after someone who contracted Cryptosporidium, or Crypto for short, visited the pool prior to showing symptoms.

Crypto can be spread when an infected person, most often a child, swims too soon after having a case of diarrhea.

The Wake County Health Department was first notified that a person had contracted Crypto and then followed up to find out where the person had been and learned that the individual had visited the Holding Park pool.

“To protect ourselves from crypto, the best thing we can do is not swallow the water we swim in," PRCR Director Ruben Wall said. "We want to keep crypto out of the pool in the first place, and the way we do that is not to swim or let our children swim when they’re sick with diarrhea."