Sentences with phrase «water illness outbreaks»
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there has been a substantial increase in the number of recreational water illness outbreaks directly associated with swimming.
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As the number of people sickened in an outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx climbed to 71 yesterday, health officials were still piecing together where the illness, a form of pneumonia spread through airborne water droplets, might have originated.
For the study, Dorevitch and colleagues estimated the number of recreational waterborne illnesses using data from two large epidemiological studies as well as reports of water - borne disease outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.
In 1854 physician John Snow, one of the founders of modern epidemiology, traced a cholera outbreak in the overcrowded London neighborhood of Soho to a contaminated public water pump by noting how many cases of illness clustered around the pump.
Conflicts have destroyed infrastructures in several nations, and with inadequate water and sanitation systems in some countries, there is «an immediate need» to ensure outbreaks and illnesses are properly controlled.
The water's pH. Maintaining a proper pH is critical for controlling bacteria and preventing outbreaks of gastrointestinal illnesses.