RFK Jr sparks health warning after posting pictures from Mothers' Day hike with his grandkids

Robert F. Kennedy Junior has shared pictures of himself and his grandchildren swimming successful a DC creek that is contaminated with feces.

Authorities pass that Rock Creek, utilized to drain excess sewage and tempest h2o successful dense rainfall, is positively teeming with E.coli and different unsafe bacteria.

But the Health Secretary, 71, inactive took a dip successful it with his grandchildren this Mother's Day, seemingly unaware of the danger.

He shared photos of the aquatics online, showing himself successful the h2o with his jeans connected and, astatine 1 point, afloat submerged.

His grandchildren paddled successful the h2o nearby, and 1 was photographed splashing him with the water.

The National Park Service, which manages the Creek, warns online: 'Rock Creek has precocious levels of bacteria and different infectious pathogens that marque swimming, wading and different interaction with the h2o a hazard to quality health.

'Please support yourself and your pooches by staying connected trails and retired of the creek.'

It adds successful the advisory: 'All District waterways are taxable to a aquatics prohibition — this means wading, too!'

Rock Creek, which runs done Dumbarton Oaks Park successful the city, has had a aquatics prohibition due to the fact that of the sewage for much than 50 years.

Sampling of h2o moving done Rock Creek successful September past year, the latest available, revealed an E.coli level successful the h2o of 285 per 100 milliliters.

The World Health Organization suggests that immoderate number implicit 10 per illustration is 'low risk', portion immoderate implicit 100 is 'medium risk'. It says it is champion for h2o to incorporate nary E.coli.

The Health Secretary shared images of himself taking the dip connected Sunday with the caption: 'Mother's Day hike successful Dumbarton Oaks Park with Amaryllis, Bobby, Kick and Jackson, and a aquatics with my grandchildren, Bobcat and Cassius, successful Rock Creek.'

His station connected X has since had a informing placed onto it, which reads: 'Swimming successful Rock Creek is unsafe and prohibited by the National Park Service, arsenic the creek contains dangerously precocious bacteria levels.'

Some followers were speedy to constituent retired that the h2o astir DC is unsafe and tin beryllium contaminated with bacteria.

But others heralded him for taking a dip, and applauded his 'healthy and blessed family'.

DailyMail.com has contacted the White House for comment.

People tin drawback E.coli from contaminated h2o by swallowing it portion swimming oregon drinking the water.

Symptoms look wrong 2 to 8 days of infection, and statesman arsenic terrible tummy cramps, watery diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and a mild fever.

In uncommon cases, the corruption tin origin dehydration and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which is erstwhile tiny reddish humor cells go damaged, inflamed and signifier clots successful the bloodstream. This tin origin the kidneys to unopen down.

The corruption is treated utilizing antibiotics and an IV drip to regenerate mislaid fluids.

About 73,000 Americans are infected with E.coli each year, though this is commonly linked to consuming nutrient contaminated with the bacteria.

An estimated 2,168 radical are hospitalized, portion 61 radical dice from the infection. 

It's conscionable the latest successful a bid of peculiar incidents related to RFK's outdoors personality.

Previously, his household members person said RFK decapitated a whale carcass successful 1994 aft its assemblage washed up connected a formation adjacent Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

His girl Kick told Town and Country mag successful 2012: '[He] ran down to the formation with a chainsaw, chopped disconnected the whale's caput and past bungee-corded it to the extortion of the household minivan for the five-hour haul backmost to Mount Kisco, New York.'

She added: 'Every clip we accelerated connected the highway, whale foodstuff would determination into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest happening connected the planet.'

RFK has besides recounted however helium erstwhile dumped a dormant carnivore cub successful New York's Central Park successful 2014.

And connected the run trail, the then-Presidential hopeful told crowds however helium had a dormant worm lodged successful his brain.