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Waterborne Illnesses

By Peggy J. Parks

Book information

Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Year
2013
ISBN
9781420510966, 9781420509359
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (6995147 bytes)
Series
Diseases and Disorders Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
106\0
Time added
2023-08-20 11:32:08

Description

As Earth's population has continued to grow, reaching 7 billion people in 2011, much of the planet's available fresh water has become polluted, making it unfit for drinking, cooking, or bathing, and contributing to deadly maladies known as waterborne illnesses. This book will provide an overview of waterborne illnesses and explain the magnitude of the problem. Individual chapters focus on defining and explaining waterborne illnesses, such as Cholera, Dysentery, Hepatitis A, Polio, Typhoid Fever, and SARs, identifying sources of water contamination and geographic areas most affected, and exploring how natural disasters may greatly magnify the problem. Global efforts to prevent waterborne illness are also discussed.

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