This is an email that I received a couple weeks ago concerning this issue:
hey, do you know anything about skin rashes or infections that have been associated with hot springs?? I broke out really bad after deep creek and have after a few other hot springs. I assume it to be a bacterial infection and have used antibiotics. I am just curious if there is anything written on conditions that allow this to happen in some hot springs and not in others and what the bacteria might be?? Someone suggested staff???