Emerging and Zoonotic Pathogens Team Members: Milagro Fernandez, Caroline Rigotto Borges, Ana E. Escalante, Maureen Njoki Kinyua, Alexis De La Cruz Lombardo
Abstract Air quality is one of the major environmental concerns in urban areas. In urban indoor environments, air can be more polluted than outdoor due to presence of various sources of air pollution, poor ventilation and building design and outdoor infiltration. People who spend their maximum time...
Team Members: Sassi, H. P., Biyins, A., Pang, H., Pohl, A., Lampe, B., Ghasemlou, M., Shrivastava, S. The Problem Introduction Paneer is a South Asian variety of soft cheese that is a non-fermentative, non-renneted, non-melting and unripened type of cheese which is used in raw form or in the...
Safe Drinking Water for Schools Team Members: Leak, E., Abla, M., Meschke, J.S., Jackson, C., Pogreba-Brown, K., Eltholth, M.M. The Problem Schools, particularly schools in inner cities and rural areas do not have safe potable water for students. While the Safe Water Act and the Ground Water Act...
QMRA of Recreational Waters Team Members: Espinosa-Garcia, A.C., Suzuki, E., Rivera, I., Pogreba-Brown, K., Verhougstraete, M.P., Magri, M.E The Problem It is known that exposure to poor water quality at recreational beaches can result in acute human illnesses. Epidemiological studies performed...
Measles Outbreak at a theme park in southern California and propagation through California Team members: Chaves, B. D., Comaty, S., Mootian, G., Shen, Y., Suehr, Q., Zlatanovic, L. The Problem Measles is caused by a virus known simply as the measles virus and is spread mainly through droplet...
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...
Irrigation of Lettuce With Reclaimed Water: Health Risk Comparison Among United States, Mexico and Brazil Team members: Chaudhry, R., Fonseca, A., Fernandes, A., Sexton, J., Hamilton, K. The Problem Reclaimed water is the result of wastewater treatment. This water meets water quality standards for...
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