Voorbeelden van waterborne

• In developing countries, waterborne diarrhoeal illness continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality.

• Clearly, waterborne cryptosporidiosis is the major infectious cause of waterborne disease in the western world.

• In these cases the responsible organisms cannot be isolated and the identification of a waterborne source is usually based on epidemiological evidence.

• These data will provide information required to assess the potential impact of grazing adult beef cattle on the transmission of waterborne pathogens.

• This outbreak investigation illustrates the importance of norovirus as a cause of waterborne illness and the additional exacerbation through person-to-person transmission in closed settings.

• The distribution of acute gastroenteritis cases, which occurred along the same water distribution system, suggests a waterborne origin.

• Implementation of these strategies will limit potential environmental contamination, thus reducing potential transmission to other animals and reducing public health impacts due to waterborne zoonoses.

• The implications for diarrhoeal and other waterborne illnesses for areas where large numbers are dependent on public hydrants is therefore very serious.