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1 1. Waterborne and Water-Related Diseases - Role of Water Treatm What do we mean by waterborne? Page - 1
2 3. Epidemic and Endemic Disease some definitions 4. Issues of Surveillance Page - 2
3 5. Why do we care about waterborne diseases? 6. Worldwide Distribution of Child Deaths Page - 3
4 7. Diarrhea and Pneumonia 8. Water and Hygiene Page - 4
5 9. Water-related causes of child death 10. Age-related Incidence of Diarrhea Page - 5
6 11. UN Millennium Report UN Millennium Report 2005 Page - 6
7 13. UN Millennium Report Person, Place, & Time Page - 7
8 15. Behaviors Higher Risk Diarrhea 16. Fetching Water Page - 8
9 17. Pipe Filters 18. Overview Page - 9
10 19. Water Needs (Quantity) and Water Risk 20. Drought Page - 10
11 21. Summary of requirement for water service level to promote he Minimal Water Needs Page - 11
12 23. Sub-populations Needed Water 24. Need Water. Page - 12
13 25. Historical Information 26. US was once a developing country Page - 13
14 27. It was Cleanliness against Cholera and Yellow Fever 28. Water Tunnels Page - 14
15 29. Typhoid rates in Chicago deaths per 10,000 persons 30. Multiple Barriers Concept Page - 15
16 31. : Slide : Slide Page - 16
17 33. : Slide : Slide Page - 17
18 35. : Slide Sanitation / Cholera Page - 18
19 37. Things are better 1870s on 38. We developed guidelines Page - 19
20 39. What did chlorination accomplish ? 40. Nutrition/Cognition Page - 20
21 41. Water and Sanitation associated with improved child growth Effect of Water and Sanitation Page - 21
22 43. Effects of Stunting, Diarrheal Disease, and Parasitic Infect Epidemics what happens when water treatment lapses Page - 22
23 45. Morbidity, Rwandan Refugees, 94 (UNHCR) 46. Walkerton Page - 23
24 47. Walkerton Deaths and Illness 48. Animal Manure to Human Disease Page - 24
25 49. Contaminated Wells 50. Socio-Economic Analysis of Walkerton Page - 25
26 51. : Slide Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operations (CAFO) Page - 26
27 53. Typhoid in Tajikistan 54. Typhoid Fever Page - 27
28 55. Case-control Dushanbe, Tajikistan 56. : Slide Page - 28
29 57. : Slide Cryptosporidium Page - 29
30 59. Geographic Pattern to Diarrhea 60. Multiple Barriers Concept Page - 30
31 61. The epidemiological iceberg Las Vegas 1994 Page - 31
32 63. Range of syndromes I 64. Range of syndromes II Page - 32
33 65. A review of immunology and a few words on clinical syndromes The Gut Surface Page - 33
34 67. Lumen 68. : Slide Page - 34
35 69. Idiot s Guide to Pathogens 70. MALT: the Mucosa-associated Lymphoid Tissues Page - 35
36 71. M Cell Internal Topology 72. Some pathogens get inside...shigella Page - 36
37 73. Some pathogens get inside...shigella 74. Shigella zooming around inside of cell by polymerizing actin... Page - 37
38 75. Syndromes and a Few Specific Diseases 76. The Big Picture Page - 38
39 77. What is dehydration? How is it classified? 78. Cholera Page - 39
40 79. Cholera: In the New World, and a New Serotype 80. Cholera Page - 40
41 81. Cholera Cot 82. Extreme Dehydration from Cholera Page - 41
42 83. Cholera in Chad (WHO Website) 84. Cholera in Chad update (WHO website) Page - 42
43 85. Cholera in Iraq (WHO website) 86. Invasive Diarrhea = Dysentery = Diarrhea containing blood Page - 43
44 87. Invasion of the Colon 88. Death of the Colon due to Dysentery Page - 44
45 89. Increasing Antibiotic Resistance 90. Pathogens Page - 45
46 91. Persistent Diarrhea 92. Hospital del Nino Francisco Icaza with Persist... Page - 46
47 93. E. Bieneusi and E. Intestinalis sporesi 94. Why new waterborne disease agents? Page - 47
48 95. Demographics Population Density and Aging 96. : Slide Page - 48
49 Page - 49
50 Superimposed on Modern View of Risk Page - 50
51 101. Ill people are living longer 102. A few important waterborne diseases to know about: Page - 51
52 103. Salmonella Infections 104. : Slide Page - 52
53 105. : Slide : Slide Page - 53
54 107. : Slide : Slide Page - 54
55 109. Rotavirus: Diarrheal Pathogen 110. Rotavirus: Washington DC Page - 55
56 111. Rotavirus, cont d Global Distribution of Deaths from Rotavirus Page - 56
57 113. Polio 114. Poliovirus Page - 57
58 115. Polio Outbreaks: How to Stop Them 116. Wild Poliovirus*, 12 Aug 2002 to 11 Aug 2003 Page - 58
59 117. Wild Poliovirus, Wild Poliovirus, Page - 59
60 119. Wild Poliovirus, Wild Poliovirus, 2003 Page - 60
61 121. : Slide Geographic Distribution of Hepatitis A Virus Infection Page - 61
62 123. : Slide : Slide Page - 62
63 125. : Slide Hepatitis A Incidence Page - 63
64 127. : Slide Hepatitis E in Chad, Update 3 Page - 64
65 129. Hepatitis E Clinical Features 130. Geographic Distribution of Hepatitis E Page - 65
66 131. Hepatitis E Virus Sequences 132. Hepatitis E Virus Epidemiology in Industrialized Countries... Page - 66
67 133. Xenozoonosis 134. Cryptosporidium Page - 67
68 135. Entamoeba histolytica 136. Giardia Page - 68
69 137. Schistosomias 138. Schistosomiasis-Endemic Area Page - 69
70 139. Schistosomiasis 140. Anning River Valley Page - 70
71 141. Dry Months 142. Population Density Page - 71
72 143. Seasonality and Temporality 144. Seasonal Characteristics of Ambient Temperature Page - 72
73 145. Back to Square One 146. Handwashing Page - 73
74 147. Conclusions Page - 74
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