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Review of the Causes of Waterborne‐Disease Outbreaks
Author(s) -
Craun Gunther F.,
McCabe Leland J.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1973.tb01794.x
Subject(s) - outbreak , waterborne diseases , sanitation , environmental health , disease , geography , medicine , virology , pathology
Currently, about fourteen waterborne‐disease outbreaks occur each year in the US and cause, on an average, 1,600 illnesses and one death per year. This is not a leading cause of the American public's illnesses, but it represents a residual that should have been eliminated in this age of sanitation.