Diarrheal disease outbreak grows to more than 200 cases

The number of cases of diarrheal disease in a two-county outbreak has nearly doubled in the past week, health officials say. Cases of cryptosporidiosis linked to area swimming pools, splash pads and a water park in Columbus and Franklin and Delaware counties have jumped from 107 cases a week ago to at least 202. That's more cases than the health departments saw in the past four years combined. (All but about a dozen or so of the cases were reported in July.) The parasitic disease has been linked