Waterborne Diseases in the US
by Gunther F. Craun (Editor)
CRC Press | December 2017 | ISBN-10: 131589856X | 303 Pages | PDF | 22.1 mb

This book examines, in both a current and historical context, water-related illness in the U.S. Emphasis is placed upon the transmission of infectious diseases through contaminated drinking water supplies and those deficiencies in water supply systems which allow waterborne outbreaks to occur. Chapters have been included on the important etiologic agents responsible for waterborne outbreaks in the U.S., surveillance activities, regulations, water treatment to prevent the occurrence of waterborne outbreaks and procedures for investigating waterborne outbreaks. For completeness, discussion have been included on illnesses contracted by ingestion of contact with waters for bathing , swimming, or wading and chronic ingestion of low levels of chemical contaminants in drinking water; however, because of space limitations there are necessarily brief, and the reader is directed toward the provided references, which discuss these subjects in more depth. Re-issued under 'CRC Revival' series.

CONTENTS
SECTION I: WATERBORNE DISEASES
Chapter 1 Introduction 3
Chapter 2 Clinical and Epidemiological Characteristics of Common Infectious Diseases and Chemical Poisonings Caused by Ingestion of Contaminated Drinking Water 11
Chapter 3 Diseases Caused by Water Contact 23
Chapter 4 Chemical Drinking Water Contaminants and Disease 43
SECTION II: WATERBORNE OUTBREAK STATISTICS
Chapter 5 Statistics of Waterborne Outbreaks in the U.S. (1920—1980) 73
Chapter 6 Recent Statistics of Waterborne Disease Outbreaks (1981—1983) 161
SECTION III: INVESTIGATION OF WATERBORNE OUTBREAKS
Chapter 7 Epidemiologic Procedures for Investigation of Waterborne Disease Outbreaks 171
Chapter 8 Methods to Identify Waterborne Pathogens and Indicator Organisms 195
Chapter 9 Engineering Aspects of Waterborne Outbreak Investigation 215
SECTION IV: PREVENTION OF WATERBORNE OUTBREAKS
Chapter 10 Regulations and Surveillance 233
Chapter 11 Barriers to the Transmission of Waterborne Disease 255
Epilogue 275
Index 279
 
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