Bibliograph

Waterborne illnesses, Peggy J. Parks

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Label

Waterborne illnesses, Peggy J. Parks

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Waterborne illnesses

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Peggy J. Parks

Series statement

Diseases & disorders

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification