Environmental health aspects of drinking water-borne outbreak due to karst flooding: Case study

Journal of Water and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 513-520

  Dura, Gyula ^a   Pándics, Tamás ^a   Kádár, Mihály ^a   Krisztalovics, Katalin ^b   Kiss, Zoltánné ^c   Bodnár, Judit ^c   Asztalos, Ágnes ^c   Papp, Erzsébet ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Hungary)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c North Hungarian Regional Institute of Public Health Service   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Karst water; Monitoring system; Vulnerability; Water quality; Waterborne outbreak

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLOODING; KARST HYDROLOGY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FLOODING; LABORATORY TEST; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; CAMPYLOBACTER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; HUNGARY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NORWALK VIRUS; PROCEDURES; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BORSOD-ABAUJ-ZEMPLEN; HUNGARY; MISKOLC;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; HUNGARY; NORWALK VIRUS; RAIN; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77956236540     PISSN: 14778920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wh.2010.099     Document Type: Article

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