Issue 31
The Public Health Newsletter of the CRC for Water Quality and Treatment
September 2003
In this Issue:

US Waterborne Disease Study
Conference Report
15th Conference of the International
Society for Environmental Epidemiology

DALYS For Waterborne Disease
News Items
From the Literature
    Arsenic
    
Cancer
    Chemicals
    Cryptosporidium & Giardia

    Climate Change
    Cyanobacteria
    Detection Methods
    Disinfection Byproducts
    Helicobacter
    
Outbreaks
    Risk Assessment
   
 Water Quality
    Viruses

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From the Literature

Arsenic

Searching for an optimum solution to the Bangladesh arsenic crisis.
Caldwell B K, Caldwell J C, Mitra S N, Smith W. Soc Sci Med (2003) 56 (10):2089-96.

Non-cancer effects of chronic arsenicosis in Bangladesh: Preliminary results.
Milton A H, Hasan Z, Rahman A, Rahman M. J Environ Sci Health Part a (2003) 38 (1):301-5.

Chronic Arsenic Toxicity: Clinical Features, Epidemiology, and Treatment: Experience in West Bengal.
Guha Mazumder D N. J Environ Sci Health - Part A (2003) 38 (1):141-63.

Cancer

Perchloroethylene-contaminated drinking water and the risk of breast cancer: Additional results from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.
Aschengrau A, Rogers S, Ozonoff D. Environ Health Perspect (2003) 111 (2):167-73.
Nitrate in Public Water Supplies and Risk of Bladder Cancer.
Ward M H, Cantor K P, Riley D, Merkle S, Lynch C F. Epidemiology (2003) 14 (2):183-90.

Chemicals

Presence and release of phthalic esters and other endocrine disrupting compounds in drinking water.
Casajuana N, Lacorte S. Chromatographia (2003) 57 (9-10):649-55.

Cryptosporidium & Giardia

Cell Culture-Taqman PCR Assay for Evaluation of Cryptosporidium parvum Disinfection.
Keegan A R, Fanok S, Monis P T, Saint C P. Appl Environ Microbiol (2003) 69 (5):2025-11.
Prevalence of Giardia spp. and Cryptosporidium spp. on dairy farms in southeastern New York state.
Barwick R S, Mohammed H O, White M E, Bryant R B. Prev Vet Med (2003) 59 (1-2):1-11.

Climate Change

Climate change and waterborne and vector-borne disease.
Hunter P R. J Appl Microbiol (2003) 94:37S-46S.

Cyanobacteria

Multiplex PCR Assay for Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and Cylindrospermopsin-Producing Cyanobacteria.
Fergusson K M, Saint C P. Environ Toxicol (2003) 18:120-5.

Detection Methods



Evaluation of simple microbiol tests for detection of fecal coliforms directly at 44.5 degrees C.
Tewari S, Ramteke P W, Garg S K. Environ Monitor Assess (2003) 85 (2):191-198.

Disinfection Byproducts



Trihalomethane Exposure from Municipal Water Supplies and Selected Congenital Malformations.
Shaw G M, Ranatunga D, Quach T, et al. Epidemiology (2003) 14 (2):191-9.
Approaching DBP toxicity as a mixture problem.
Teuschler L K, Simmons J E. J AWWA (2003) 95 (6):131-138.
Helicobacter
Risk of Helicobacter pylori transmission from drinking well water is higher than that from infected intrafamilial members in Japan.
Karita M, Teramukai S, Matsumoto S. Dig Dis Sci. (2003) 48 (6):1062-7.

Outbreaks

Outbreaks of infectious disease associated with private drinking water supplies in England and Wales 1970-2000.
Said B, Wright F, Nichols G L, Reacher M, Rutter M. Epidemiol Infect. (2003) 130 (3):469-79.

Risk Assessment

Incorporating susceptible subpopulations in microbial risk assessment: pediatric exposures to enteroviruses in river water.
Parkin R T, Soller J A, Olivieri A W. J Exp Anal Environ Epidemiol (2003) 13 (2):161-8.
A theoretical approach to assess microbial risks due to failures in drinking water systems.
Westrell T, Bergstedt O, Stenstrom T A, Ashbolt N J. Int J Environ Health Res 2003;13 (2):181-97.

Buffer distances for on-site sewage systems in Sydney's drinking water catchments.
Charles K, Roser D, Ashbolt N, Deere D, McGulnness R. Wat Sci Tech (2003) 47 (7-8):183-9.

Health risks and parasitical quality of water.
Gofti-Laroche L, Demanse D, Joret J C, Zmirou D. J AWWA (2003) 95 (5):162-172.

Water Quality


Failure of rural schemes in South Africa to provide potable water.
Mackintosh G, Colvin C. Environ Geol (2003) 44 (1):101-5.

Viruses

Are waterborne astrovirus implicated in acute digestive morbidity (E.MIRA study)?
Gofti-Laroche L, Gratacap-Cavallier B, Demanse D, et al. J Clin Virol (2003) 27 (1):74-82.