Sentences with phrase «through contaminated water»

Easily transmitted through contaminated water and uncooked foods, it has an incubation period of approximately 28 days, so a traveler may well have returned to work after a trip before the symptoms develop.

Typhoid is a bacterial illness spread through contaminated water and foods washed in contaminated water.

It's speculated that the resistant genes enter the human gut through the food chain, through direct contact with animals, or through contaminated water sources.

This could include drinking, swimming or walking through contaminated water (ex puddles or wet grass).

Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease of humans and animals that is spread through contaminated water and urine or other body fluids from an infected animal.

The swift - moving illness is spread by a bacteria in the urine of rats, skunks, raccoons and other infected animals, which dogs can come in contact with through contaminated water or moist soil.

Your pet may have been drinking, swimming, or walking through contaminated water.

Usually the transmission is through contaminated water — think puddles, lakes, streams, or water that isn't suited for drinking in some countries.

Your dog can become infected with Lepto by drinking, swimming in or walking through contaminated water.

Adult dogs typically ingest them through contaminated water.

Your dog can become infected with Leptospira by drinking, swimming in or walking through contaminated water.

Leptospirosis — If your pet drinks, swims, or wades through contaminated water, he and you can get infected.

The disease lives in brackish water and is closely associated with rainfall linked to the ENSO, spreading through contaminated water and shellfish.

Not exact matches

The technique uses high - pressure pumps to force contaminated water across a special membrane, which weeds out the bad stuff and lets the pure water through.

As Charles Krauthammer has put it, AIDS is the archetypal behavioral epidemic: it is not spread through the water supply or the air, it is not transmitted in contaminated food or infected fomites.

Like water flowing through a rusty pipe, our desires and needs contaminate the flow.

Moreover, chemicals in cosmetics and skincare that we rinse off can contaminate our water and aquatic ecosystems Conventional cosmetics and skincare products are made to last for a long time as well as withstand various environmental and storage conditions through the use of strong chemicals.

Through a unique process known worldwide as the BIDA ® System, our biofiltration technology is capable of producing water suitable for irrigation from waste water sources contaminated with organic solids and nutrients.

It is transmitted through direct contact, so you either picked up the infection through contaminated food (especially seafood), water, or a person already infected with it.

Instead of the chance of limited exposure from a limited area in an out of water birth (which could have been mitigated), this baby received an onslaught through his eyes, nose, ears, stomach, and lungs via the contaminated bathwater.

«Can a product which requires clean water, good sanitation, adequate family income and a literate parent to follow printed instructions, be properly and safely used in areas where water is contaminated, sewage runs through the streets, poverty is severe and illiteracy is high?»

A fact sheet from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indicates that about 90 % of exposure for humans is due to eating contaminated food, since dioxins and furans typically accumulate in the fatty tissues of fish and animals that are exposed when these by - products are released into the water and air during manufacturing.2 Dioxin is not metabolized in our bodies, and is passed to our children through the placenta and breastfeeding.3 Sodium Polyacrylate - Super Absorbent Polymers While actual contact with disposable diapers does not contribute to dioxin accumulation in your baby, your baby's bottom does come in contact with chemicals used to increase the absorbency of the diapers.

According to the CDC, people usually get E. coli infections from «eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef,» however you can also become infected through «person to person contact in families and child care centers,» from drinking raw milk, after swimming in or drinking water that has been contaminated with sewage, and by having contact with infected farm animals.

Shockingly, in one of the cases the germs spread through the groundwater; and two kilometres away from this trench, a borewell was found with water contaminated by E-coli bacteria» ~ DNA India 2012-12-26

What it is: A viral infection that's spread by skin - to - skin contact or through contaminated pool water, clothing, towels, or toys.

Until the early twentieth century, however, infants who were exclusivelydry nursed or fed artificially usually failed to thrive, either because of inadequate nutrition or contaminated animal milk or water.6 Thus before industrialization the overwhelming majority of women breastfed their infants for a considerable length of time, and in Europe and the United States evidence suggests that through the seventeenth century women generally breastfed their infants beyond the second summer.

The infection does not spread from person - to - person — people become infected with the bacteria through inhalation of contaminated water droplets.

Or, for that matter, by ensuring that we're protecting our water through the Department of Environmental and Planning and its environmental planning and its environmental compliance division to ensure that people are not contaminating our water supplies by putting what would be considered harmful chemicals into the water.

Dooley said cases of contaminated drinking water occur, like that found in Dimmock, Pa., where home owner can set well drinking water on fire, are caused when well bores are not properly sealed, allowing lighter - than - air methane gas to rise through wells, fissures in rock and into drinking wells.

Hepatitis A is a viral liver disease transmitted by ingesting contaminated food or water through direct contact with an infected person.

He said such pollution can lead to unclean drinking water, an unhealthy food supply through fish consumption and the flow of contaminated water into smaller waterways.

It can be readily transmitted by air, insect bites or through contaminated food or water.

When this water, called submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), trickles through contaminated soil and rock, it can pick up and transport a variety of ions, nutrients, and chemicals to the sea — including pollutants that contribute to coastal dead zones and toxic algal blooms.

In a more practical test in which lead - contaminated water flowed through the foam, it scrubbed the water of up to 67 percent of the lead ions.

When cholera spread through London's Soho district in 1854, Snow plotted a map of the deadly outbreak and found that everyone who fell ill had used water from a centrally placed public well that was contaminated by nearby sewers and cesspools.

The mines expose Navajo Nation residents to uranium through airborne dust and contaminated drinking water.

A Seattle suburb was making progress cleansing its E. coli - contaminated water supply through system - wide flushes and chlorine injections, a task made more urgent after the potentially deadly bacteria sickened a child, officials said on Tuesday.

The scientists ran a sample of BPA - contaminated water through both the new porous cyclodextrins as well as three existing activated carbons and two nonporous cyclodextrin polymers.

Finally, the team flowed inactivated, E. coli - contaminated water through the wood filter.

Transmitted through the feces of infected cats, undercooked meat or contaminated water, toxoplasmosis is typically latent and harmless for healthy adults.

Contaminated river, lost identity Before the St. Lawrence River spills into the Atlantic Ocean, it runs through the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne and for centuries gave them water, food and an identity.

Scientists discuss how agriculture and irrigation are changing underground water flows, rerouting them through contaminated ground

Humans can become infected with leptospirosis in ways similar to animals, through direct contact or ingestion or inhalation of contaminated water or soil.

The Russians have engineered their system so that when they break through into the lake, water pressure from below is supposed to push the drilling fluids up the hole, rather than letting them pour into the lake and contaminate it.

It is highly contagious, and spreads through the human population in areas with poor water sanitation when contaminated food or water is consumed.

Through December 31, 2016, the Defense Department had spent about $ 200 million to assess contaminated sites, test water systems, and provide filters and bottled water in response to PFOA and PFOS.

It's often transmitted by food or water contaminated with feces, and through person - to - person contact, he said.

In an interesting demonstration, swimming pool water was contaminated with 50 gallons of raw sewage that had been flushed through silver electrodes.

The more common kinds of exposure are from dust in houses with lead paint, from water contaminated with lead (by passing through old pipes, which is what happened in Flint), or from toys, jewelry, tableware, or home remedies that may be contaminated with lead.

These are foreign pathogens that make their way into our bodies through unclean water, shellfish, pork products and other forms of contaminated food.