Team members: Pitol, A., Kotlarz, N., Byrne, D., Swanberg, B., Uprety, S. The Problem The Commonwealth Games are an international sporting competition that has been held nearly every four years since 1930 by countries in the Commonwealth of England. The upcoming games will be held in 2018 in Gold...
Abstract Hazard ID Exposure Assessment Dose Response Risk Characterization Risk Management References Our group focuses on two pathogens: one from bacteria group and one from virus group. The bacteria group that we are focusing on are: Campylobacter jejuni and the virus group is Adenovirus. The...
Team members: Pitkänen, T., Agullo, M., van Veen, M., Habib, I., Krojgaard, L., Phi, V. Introduction Faecal contamination of drinking water and subsequent waterborne gastrointestinal infection outbreaks are a major global public health concern (WHO, 2004). Human and animal faeces may contain...
Back to Case Studies Case Study 2: Biosolids Team Members: Pinto, K.C., Arnesen, A.S., Husserl, J., Newman, K., Casanova, L., Rock, C.M., Gurian, P., Gerba, C., Sato, M.I. [ edit ] The Problem Hazard ID Exposure Assessment Dose Response Risk Characterization Risk Management References Sewage...
Emerging and Zoonotic Pathogens Team Members: Milagro Fernandez, Caroline Rigotto Borges, Ana E. Escalante, Maureen Njoki Kinyua, Alexis De La Cruz Lombardo
Introduction The increase of rainfall due to climate change might collapse the sewer systems of cities that will not be able to collect and transport such amount of water over a short period of time. Cities in The Netherlands are increasingly designing sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS)...
Gastrointestinal (GI) Illness to Human Consumers of Shrimp Produced by Wastewater-Fed Aquaculture Team members: Chen, A., de-Graft Johnson, E., Gitter, A., Kozak, S., Niquice, C., Zimmer-Faust, A. The Problem Treated wastewater is a potential resource, especially in regions facing water shortages...
Team Members: Bui, A., de los Reyes, F., Foster, J., Gentry, J., Limayem, A., Lopez, J., Stott, R. Disease Outbreak in Natural Disaster Zones With the increasing awareness toward worldwide food or waterborne diseases and concern about overpopulation along with potential natural disasters and...
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