Animal Waste, Water Quality and Human Health

Domestic animals contaminate recreational waters and drinking-water sources with excreta and pathogens; but this threat to public health is inadequately understood and is insufficiently addressed in regulations. More than 85% of the world's faecal wastes is from domestic animals such as poultry...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dufour, Al
Other Authors: Bartram, Jamie, Bos, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : IWA Publishing, 2014.
Series:Emerging issues in water and infectious disease series.
Subjects:
Animal waste.
Zoonoses.
Waterborne infection.
Enterobacteriaceae.
Animals as carriers of disease.
Environmental health.
Public health.
Water > Pollution.
Water quality.
Zoonoses
Waterborne Diseases
Enterobacteriaceae
Public Health
Déchets animaux.
Infection d'origine hydrique.
Entérobactériacées.
Animaux (Vecteurs de maladies)
Santé publique.
Eau > Qualité.
public health.
SCIENCE > Applied Sciences.
Animal waste
Animals as carriers of disease
Environmental health
Public health
Water > Pollution
Water quality
Waterborne infection
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Summary Statement; 1. Introduction; 2. Assessing the importance of zoonotic waterborne pathogens; 3. Zoonotic waterborne pathogen loads in livestock; 4. Zoonotic waterborne pathogens in livestock and their excreta
  • interventions; 5. Transport of microbial pollution in catchment systems; 6. Effectiveness of best management practices for attenuating the transport of livestock-derived pathogens within catchments; 7. Exposure; 8. Exposure interventions; 9. Indicators, sanitary surveys and source attribution techniques; 10. Comparative risk analysis.
  • 11. Epidemiological studies on swimmer health effects associated with potential exposure to zoonotic pathogens in bathing beach water
  • a review12. Economic evaluation; Index.

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