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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UK, Essex, female wild swimmer standing in a lake touching the water at sunrise. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll ...

Primrose Freestone, senior lecturer in clinical microbiology at the University of Leicester looks at the growing trend of wild swimmining and whether fears of germs and unwanted bacteria are founded.